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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the pores of the body.

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Examples

  • There was no poral nominally or even legally accountable and responsible if they did not have the authority and flexibility to manage their departments effectively.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Ghazali did not deny that events in the world are ordered in sequences of priority and posteriority, tem - poral and ontological, ordinarily regarded as causes and effects and on the basis of which scientific inferences about nature can be drawn.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MICHAEL E. MARMURA 1968

  • And since the ideas or ideals were accessible only to the reason, two kinds of cognition were established, perception which grasped the tem - poral, changing, multiple things in the material world without knowing what it was grasping, and reason which knew the eternal, immutable, unified things of the ideal world.

    IDEA GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • Nevertheless what the evolutionist does do is to construct and attempt to verify phylogenetic hypotheses on the basis of all the available information, including not only phenotypic homology but also tem - poral relations among structures in the fossil record, as well as considerations about possible sequences of change in structures, which minimize the total number of changes which must be supposed to have occurred.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART A. KAUFFMAN 1968

  • As if she had been a thing without cor - poral body-an illusion.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Robert C. FELDER embassy: Rue C.poral Bernard Anani, C.tonou mailing address: B.P. 2012, C.tonou

    The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Robert C. FELDER embassy: Rue C.poral Bernard Anani, C.tonou mailing address: B.P. 2012, C.tonou telephone: 30-06-50, 30-05-13, 30-17-92

    The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • [Page 144] poral happiness with enliven it as can be desired by those who are looking forward towards a better inheritance.

    Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832

  • This parable leaves no doubt about who our neighbor is-anyone (without distinc - tion of race or relationship) who needs our help; nor about how we should love him - by taking pity on him, being compassionate towards his spiritual and cor - poral needs; and it is not just a matter of having the right feelings towards him; we must do something, we must generously serve him.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • A strong profit performance was produced in the European cur - rency, but the translated results were a loss (note: translation followed the tem - poral and not the all current method).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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