temporale

plural temporales

1. CatholicismA 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.

   The third and final volume of the temporale employs a different stave height and was clearly written later.

   2003, Pia Palladino, Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, →ISBN, page 53

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   In the Roman rite, this period of the year is known as ‘ordinary time’ and, like the Old Hispanic rite, mostly uses quotidian materials for the temporale.

   2022, Emma Hornby, Raquel Rojo Carrillo, “The Liturgical Year in the Old Hispanic Rite”, in Emma Hornby et al., editors, Understanding the Old Hispanic Office: Texts, Melodies, and Devotion in Early Medieval Iberia, →ISBN, page 37

plural temporales

1. climatologyA rainy wind that blows into Central America from the southwest during the summer, often bringing stormy weather.

   Only two storms, Emily and Jennifer, developed over the Pacific; and of these, Emily formed within a temporale, over southern Mexico, that occurred in the wake of hurricane Camille.

   1970, Neil F. Frank, “Atlantic Tropical Systems of 1969”, in Monthly Weather Review, volume 98, number 4, page 310