temporalty Obs. or arch.
(ˈtɛmpərəltɪ)
Also 4–6 temper-; 4–5 -el-; 4–6 -te, -tee, 4–7 -tie, 5–6 -tye, (6 temporalltie).
[app. a. AF. *temporelté = F. temporalité (13th c.), f. OF. temporel, temporal: see -ty. Cf. commonalty, cruelty, loyalty, etc. In 14–15th c. assimilated to the L. form, as temper-, temporalité; now temporality.]
1. Temporal or secular things, affairs, business; temporal authority. ? Obs.
| 1396–7 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 299 Temporelte and spirituelte ben to partys of holi chirche. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) iii. 10 He es þare lorde bathe of temperaltee and of spiritualtee. c 1483 Caxton Dialogues 45 Cest grand folye De donner le eternalite Pour le temporalite, it is grete folye For to gyve the eternalite For the temporalte. c 1511 1st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 30/2 In ye temperalte haue they one Emperour. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. i. i. ii. (1651) 415 The mutability of all temporalties. 1651 Life Father Sarpi (1676) 47 Lands that in the temporalty are subject to the state of Venice, and in the spirituality are under the Arch-Bishop of Milan. 1700 J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo I. 183 The Spiritualty and Temporalty are two distinct Jurisdictions. |
b. Chiefly pl. Temporal possessions; esp. those of an ecclesiastical person or body: = temporality 1 b. ? Obs.
| [1306 Rolls of Parlt. I. 220/1 Ont donez terres, tenementz, & avoesons, & tieles autres temporautez, as Prelatz de seinte Eglise.] 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 127 Prelates þei hem maden, To holden with antecryste her temperaltes to saue. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 103 Subsidies & dymes for here temperalties. 1449 Rolls of Parlt. V. 157/2 Prouffitez of the temperaltees of Bisshuprichez. 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 229 A stately Monasterie (the temporalties whereof did amount to a hundreth fiftie and five poundes). 1607 Cowell Interpr., Temporalties of Bishops (Temporalia Episcoporum) be such reuenewes, lands, and tenements, as Bishops haue had laid to their Sees by the Kings and other great personages of this land from time to time. a 1715 Burnet Own Time I. iv. (1724) 760 The Cardinal was chosen by the Chapter Vicar, or Guardian of the temporalties. |
2. The body of temporal persons or laymen, the laity; the temporal estate or estates of the realm, i.e. the temporal peers and the commons.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 335 Kyng William was sterne..and rulede boþe temperalte and spiritualte at his owne wille. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. 301 Ther was graunted vnto the kyng..bothe of spirituelte and of temporalte an hole taxe and a disme. a 1529 Skelton Col. Cloute 61 For the temporalte Accuseth the spiritualte. 1621 H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) App. 129 The subsidies of the Temporalty and the Clergie brought into the House from the King. a 1715 Burnet Own Time an. 1663 (1823) I. ii. 340 The convocation gave..four subsidies, which proved as heavy on them, as they were light on the temporalty. 1874 S. Wilberforce Ess. II. 191 The old compact between the spirituality and the temporalty. |
† b. The condition or estate of a layman. Obs.
| c 1440 Bone Flor. 1032 Ther was lefte no man in that town..That was of temporalte. 1482 Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 38 Sothely some flowryd in prosperite in the spyrytualte. Some in the temporalte and some in relygyon. |