a. Obs. [ad. L. contemporāl-is (Tertullian) contemporary, f. con- together + tempus, tempor- time, temporālis belonging to time: cf. OF. contemporel.] CONTEMPORARY.
1637. Wotton, in Reliq. Wotton. (1672), 104. He was contemporal with three Popes.
1681. Burthogge, An Argument (1684), 43. The Argument would hold as well against Successive as Contemporal Poligamy.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
