temporalEnglishOxford English Thesaurustemporal adjective 1 the temporal aspects of church government: secular, non-spiritual, worldly, profane, material, mundane, earthly, terrestrial; non-religious, lay; carnal, fleshly, mortal, corporeal; rare sublunary, terrene. ▷antonyms spiritual. 2 spatial and temporal boundaries: of time, time-related.temporal (1) Oxford Dictionary of English