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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



... young musicians, assistance which his position in the Paris Conservatoire helps to make most valuable. He is now seventy-one years old, and, should he add nothing more to the musical treasures of the present generation, much of what he has already done will give him a permanent place in the temple of lyric music. ...
— Great Italian and French Composers • George T. Ferris

... better results from the first, as the cap would be already dented by the concussion. He took the muzzle of the big revolver from his aching mouth and, releasing the chamber, spun it round.... He would place it to his temple this time. Holding one's mouth open was undignified. He raised the revolver—and John Bruce burst into the room. He had seen Malet-Marsac ride by, and knew where ...
— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren

... terraces and turrets, my work lay; but the most part of it was done in the dockyards, both in the yards which were the property of the Government and in the private yards. My recreation was a rare cruise to the lovely gulfs which the bay embosoms, to the Casa di Mare, to Fezzano, to the Temple of Venus at the Porto Venere; or a walk when there was golden-red light on the clustering vines, and the Apennines were capped with the spreading fire which falls on them when the sun passes low at twilight. Many an hour I stood above the old town, asking why a common cheat of a spy, as ...
— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton

... examined her face eagerly, recognized her at once. Yes, it was his sister Mary that stood before him. He would have known her anywhere. But there was a special mark by which he remembered her. There was a dent in her cheek just below the temple, the existence of which he could account for. In a fit of boyish passion, occasioned by her teasing him, he had flung a stick of wood at her head, and this ...
— Ben, the Luggage Boy; - or, Among the Wharves • Horatio Alger

... captain; a mayor is a greater magistrate. —A magister means a bigger man— as opposed to a minister (from minus), a smaller man. —Moneta was the name given to a stamped coin, because these coins were first struck in the temple of Juno Moneta, Juno the Adviser or the Warner. (From the same root— mon— come monition, admonition; monitor; admonish.) —Shakespeare uses the word orison freely for prayer, as in the address of Hamlet to Ophelia, where he says, "Nymph, ...
— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn


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