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noun
A cycle of texts to be read or chanted at liturgical services on particular weeks and movable feasts throughout the year; a book that contains this cycle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
A rainy wind that blows into Central America from the southwest during the summer, often bringing stormy weather.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
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History
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin temporāle, substantivisation of temporālis (“of or pertaining to time”).
Borrowed from Spanish temporal (“storm”), perhaps via back-formation from the plural temporales.
