Word Meanings - TEMPORALTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.

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• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• SECULARIZATION
  The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• SECULAR
  Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious
• ABBOT
  1. The superior or head of an abbey. 2. One of a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys. Encyc. Brit. Abbot of the people. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule , in mediæval times, the
• SECULARIZE
  1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. 2. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. 3. To
• TEMPORALITY
  1. The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. 2. The laity; temporality. Sir T. More. 3. That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• SECULARITY
  Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness. A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible. I. Taylor.
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• PEOPLER
  A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
• SECULARISM
  1. The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity. 2. The tenets or principles of the secularists.
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• LAITY
  1. The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders. A rising up of the laity against the sacerdotal caste. Macaulay. 2. The state of a layman. Ayliffe. 3. Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or
• PEOPLELESS
  Destitute of people. Poe.
• PEOPLE'S BANK
  A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.
• SECULARLY
  In a secular or worldly manner.
• ABBOTSHIP
  The state or office of an abbot.
• SECULARIST
  One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil
• UNSECULARIZE
  To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• DEPEOPLE
  To depopulate.
• SELF-POSSESSION
  The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.
• REPEOPLE
  To people anew.
• PREPOSSESSION
  1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions
• SUPERSECULAR
  Being above the world, or secular things. Bp. Hall.