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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

... "is just a little worse than either of you can imagine." He tapped his temple. "The ...

— The Moon is Green • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... I was desperately in love with the young Countess from the tip of her bonnet to the toe of her small, polished shoe. I was curiously cool about it, too, although my heart gave a thump that nigh choked me, and I felt myself going red from temple to chin. ...

— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers

... feeling of apprehension and discontentment more open expression than it would otherwise have had. Brave as the Romans were, they were deeply superstitious, and a thrill of horror and apprehension ran through the city when it was reported one morning that the statute of Victory in the temple had fallen to the ground, and had turned round as if it fled towards the sea. This presage of evil created ...

— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

... brilliant deed. Major Vinton and his detachment also earned especial praise by interrupting without aid, the first onset of Fitzhugh Lee's advance. The First and Seventh Michigan supported the Fifth in a most gallant manner. General Custer had a lock of hair shot away from his temple and Lieutenant Granger of his staff was killed. Lieutenant Lucius Carver of the Seventh also lost his life ...

— Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman - With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War • J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd

... first person by the hero himself; a mode of narration which, though the best adapted for affording scope to the expression of the feelings of the principal personages, is, in this instance, very awkwardly introduced. A stranger, while contemplating a famous picture of the Rape of Europa in the Temple of Astarte at Sidon, is accosted by a young man, who, after a few incidental remarks, proceeds, without further preface, to recount his adventures at length to this casual acquaintance. This communicative gentleman is, of course, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. • Various

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