temporal

noun

(chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

1. (also grammar) Of or relating to time.
2. Of limited time; transient; passing; not perpetual.
3. Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to spiritual.
4. Lasting a short time only.
5. Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.

   temporal power; temporal courts

1. Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
2. Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

adjective

Of the temples of the head