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Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.

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  • TEMPORALNESS
    Worldliness. Cotgrave.
  • SITUATE
    To place. Landor.
  • TEMPORALTY
    1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
  • ABOVEBOARD
    Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
  • ABOVESAID
    Mentioned or recited before.
  • SITUATE; SITUATED
    1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
  • ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
    Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
  • 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
  • FOSSANE
    A species of civet resembling the genet.
  • ABOVEDECK
    On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
  • FOSSA
    A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.
  • TEMPORALLY
    In a temporal manner; secularly. South.
  • TEMPORAL
    Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal
  • SITUATION
    1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
  • ABOVE-CITED
    Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
  • ABOVE
    1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
  • SUPRATEMPORAL
    Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.
  • SUPERTEMPORAL
    That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.
  • PRETEMPORAL
    Situated in front of the temporal bone.
  • EXTEMPORAL
    Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. B. Jonson. -- Ex*tem"po*ral*ly, adv.
  • POST-TEMPORAL
    Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n.
  • INFRATEMPORAL
    Below the temple; below the temporal bone.

 

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