Spiritual vs. Temporal — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, consisting of, or having the nature of spirit; not material; supernatural

Relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs; secular

Of, concerned with, or affecting the soul

Relating to time

Not concerned with material or worldly things

Of or situated in the temples of the head

Of or belonging to a religion; sacred

Of, relating to, or limited by time

A religious folk song of African American origin.

Of or relating to the material world; worldly

A work composed in imitation of such a song.

Lasting only for a time; not eternal; passing

Often spirituals Religious, spiritual, or ecclesiastical matters.

Secular or lay; civil

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

(Grammar) Expressing time

Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Of, relating to, or near the temples of the skull.

Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

(relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

(relational) Relating to time:

Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.

A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.

Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

(grammar) Relating to or denoting time or tense.

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.

Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.

(skeleton) temporal bone

Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; - opposed to carnal.

(zootomy) Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.

Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.

Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.

Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church;

Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; - used chiefly in the plural.

Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul;

The semantic role of the noun phrase that designating the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

Lacking material body or form or substance;

Not eternal;

Like or being a phantom;

Of or relating to or limited by time;

Of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit);

Of the material world;

Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters;

Of this earth or world;