(intransitive) To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.

simple past tense and past participle of temporize

A person who temporizes

plural of temporizer

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of temporize

(relational) Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical. / Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.

(chiefly in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

(anatomy, relational) Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.

The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).

plural of temporality / the temporal or worldly possessions of the clergy