Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With reference to time; specifically, with respect to the present life only.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb rare In a temporal manner; secularly.
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- adverb In a
temporal manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with regard to temporal order
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Examples
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They thus are further separated temporally from a direct relation to events in the region today.
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Reconstituted as it is in temporally specific terms in each generation, we are, collectively, as they were, the only authors who might emerge from the metaphorical bushes.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Ser conveys permanence; estar covers temporally bound, flucuating conditions.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Ser conveys permanence; estar covers temporally bound, flucuating conditions.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Jastrow, a producer now turned playwright, and Archer, a well known actress with 86 titles under her IMDB profile belt, had decided to take their joint efforts to the theater stage with a poignant and temporally appropriate play entitled Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion.
Jennifer Ketcham: Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion Jennifer Ketcham 2011
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I have no question in my mind that Alex is River Song ... possibly at their "First Meeting" as far as she is concerned, from her temporally fixed perspective, if she is human, at least.
Doctor Who Season Five Spoilers rabid1st 2009
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To use these settings would signify a dramatic change in every parish, from the temporally bound 4-hymn model that is ubiquitous toward a style and approach much more in keeping with what the Roman Rite calls for it.
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Finally Ludlow and Parsons take up the issue with the way that quantitative ways of measuring time have made us temporally uncentered agents no longer living in the moment.
Urizenus Sklar: All Things Sheening: Reading Charlie Sheen to Find Meaning in a Secular Age Urizenus Sklar 2011
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If businessmen wanting their cash get temporally near-sighted, climate scientists, lost in their graphs of millennia, get farsighted, forgetting that sometimes you have to duck bullets -- and they don't call it the 'methane gun hypothesis' for nothing!
Nathan Currier: Methane in the Twilight Zone (Second Episode) Nathan Currier 2012
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If businessmen wanting their cash get temporally near-sighted, climate scientists, lost in their graphs of millennia, get farsighted, forgetting that sometimes you have to duck bullets -- and they don't call it the 'methane gun hypothesis' for nothing!
Nathan Currier: Methane in the Twilight Zone (Second Episode) Nathan Currier 2012
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