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Temple   /tˈɛmpəl/   Listen
noun
Temple  n.  (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.


Temple  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
2.
One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.


Temple  n.  
1.
A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. "The temple of mighty Mars."
2.
(Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. "Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch."
3.
Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. "Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?"
4.
Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. "The temple of his body." "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?" "The groves were God's first temples."
5.
(Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
6.
A local organization of Odd Fellows.
Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.


verb
Temple  v. t.  To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. (R.)





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"Temple" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he could have set the temple of Diana on fire that night if it had been handy. 'There was no crime complete enough to express my disapproval of human institutions.' As for the baronet, he was horrified to learn that he had been taken for a peddler again; ...
— The Bibliotaph - and Other People • Leon H. Vincent
... not sleep. I thought I might as well take this opportunity of thinking out a story for the Balaka. In spite of my efforts to get hold of the story it eluded me, but sleep came to the rescue instead. I saw in a dream the stone steps of a temple stained with the blood of victims of the sacrifice;—a little girl standing there with her father asking him in piteous accents: "Father, what is this, why all this blood?" and the father, inwardly moved, trying with a show of ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore
... whole thing; he did seem rather contemptuous over the chotar shikar, as he called it, I must say, until I began to juggle with backsheesch, and then he bucked up considerably and said he would do his very best to provide sport for the mems. The programme includes a ruined temple but not a tiger, 'cause he says it would be too risky a job at such short notice; also, and the real reason I should say, there hasn't been a tiger seen, anyway killed, since one was wounded and caught near that same Hindu ...
— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest
... and Whipt, for which he was imprisoned. The first three eglogues are upon the subject of Roget's imprisonment, and the fourth is on his love of poetry. "Willy" is the poet's friend, William Browne, of the Inner Temple, author of Britannia's Pastorals. He was two years the junior ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... attention caught by what is for the moment before him, or with the figures of old friends and enemies whom he meets, until the last awakening revelation of Anchises. Thus no sooner has he landed in Italy than he is attracted by the pictures in the temple of Apollo and incurs a rebuke from the priestess (vi. ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler


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