temporality
(tɛmpəˈrælɪtɪ)
Also 5 -er-; 4–6 -ite, 5 -yte, -itee, -ytee, 5–6 -itie, (6 temporallytie).
[ad. late L. temporālitās (Tertullian), f. temporāl-is, temporal: see -ity. Substituted in 14–15th c. for temperalté, temporalty, q.v.]
† 1. Temporal power, jurisdiction, affairs, property, etc.: esp. the temporal property of the clergy; = temporalty 1. Obs.
| 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xxiii. 128 Prelates thei maden, To holde with Antecrist here temporalite to saue. 1497 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 314 Resauit fra Maister Johne Fresel, elect of Ros, for the compositioun of his admissioune to the temporalitee of Ros. 1501 Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. I. 93/1 A Precept of Admission made to Jane Forman, Prioress of Eklis, to the temporalite of al landis, rentis, and possessionis of the sammyn. 1613 Sherley Trav. Persia 3 The lesser Princes of Italy being not likely to endure the Churches so great encrease of Temporality. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xlii[i], That the said incumbent might lawfully enjoy the spirituality and temporality of the cure of souls at Knocktarlitie. |
b. pl. Temporal or material possessions (esp. of the church or clergy).
| c 1475 Harl. Contn. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 546 The comons putte up a bylle in the parlement to the kynge as for the temporalytees beynge in the handes of the spirituelte. a 1552 Leland Itin. VI. 1 The Kynge had reteynid the Temporallyties of the Byshoprike for a tyme. 1593 in Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 150 To considder what great prejudice the Kirk sustains by the erecting of the tithes of diverss prelacies into temporalities, so that these kirks cannot be planted. 1660 R. Coke Power & Subj. 204 The Pope..gave to the said Nicholas the said Abby, with all the said Spiritualities, and Temporalities. 1726 Ayliffe Parergon 129 After all which, the Bishop is introduced into the King's Presence to do his Homage for his Temporalities or Barony. 1854 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxv. (1857) 546 The Church..might, I believed, have to forfeit the temporalities, if her decision differed from that of the law courts. |
2. The body or class of temporal persons; = temporalty 2.
| 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 24 The Emperour..to be lord and juge..of the temporalitee. c 1470 Henry Wallace x. 1002 The byschoprykis inclynyt till his croune, Bathe temperalite and all the religioune. 1543 Hen. VIII Sp. Parl. 24 Dec., in Coll. Poems 165 You of the Temporality be not clean and unspotted of Malice and Envy. 1679 Burnet Hist. Ref. I. 582 Here both the temporality and spirituality gave great subsidies to the king. |
3. The quality or condition of being temporal or temporary; temporariness; relation to time.
| 1634 Rainbow Labour (1635) 11 Though in the act of our labours..we place temporality, yet ought we alwayes before our intentions to set æternity. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. v. 158 As the Western Church observed this very day [All Saints day], so did also the Eastern, or at least some other, in temporality and point of time very near it. 1678 T. Jones Heart & its Right Sov. 587 What can any mortal excellency, that has..perishing temporality stamp'd upon it signifie to Christians, who are not of this world? 1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 4/1 Gaining thereby the attributes of eternity, without losing its own qualities of temporality. |