Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Transcending time, or independent of time.
- n. That which transcends or is independent of time.
- In anatomy, situated above or high up in the temporal region: specifically noting certain lateral cerebral gyri and sulci.
Wiktionary
- adj. Transcending time.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
Etymologies
- super- + temporal (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Indeed, we are being solemnly reminded today that the other-worldliness of religion, its concern with future, supertemporal things, is its characteristic and most precious contribution to the world.”
“That the absolute nature of God, as a supertemporal and yet personal Being, must be believed in as a fact, though inaccessible to reason as regards the manner of its possibility, is a position admitted, almost without exception, by divines who acknowledge the mystery of a personal”
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