Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TEM-PO-RAL'I-TIES, or TEM'PO-RALS
TEM-PO-RAL'I-TIES, or TEM'PO-RALS, n.
Secular possessions; revenues of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay-fees, tithes and the like. It is opposed to spiritualities. Bacon.
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