Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy, situated above or high up in the temporal region: specifically noting certain lateral cerebral gyri and sulci.
- Transcending time, or independent of time.
- noun That which transcends or is independent of time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
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- adjective Transcending
time .
Etymologies
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super- + temporal
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Examples
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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.
Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch
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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
The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845
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