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temple |
8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Temple \Tem"ple\, n. 1. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances. 2. A local organization of Odd Fellows. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [Cf. {Templet}.] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [OF. temple, F. tempe, from L. tempora, tempus; perhaps originally, the right place the fatal spot, supposed to be the same word as tempus, temporis, the fitting or appointed time. See {Temporal} of time, and cf {Tempo}, {Tense}, 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Temple \Tem"ple\, v. t. To build a temple for to appropriate a temple to as to temple a god. [R.] --Feltham. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out sanctuary, temple; cf Gr ? a piece of land marked off land dedicated to a god: cf F. t['e]mple, from the Latin. Cf {Contemplate}.] 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.'' --Chaucer. 2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. --John x. 23. 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? --Buckminster. 4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. ``The temple of his body.'' --John ii 21. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? --1 Cor. iii. 16. The groves were God's first temples. --Bryant. {Inner Temple}, & {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: temple n 1: an edifice for the worship of a deity 2: the flat area on either side of the forehead; "the veins in his temple throbbed" 3: a place devoted to special or exalted purposes From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Temple, GA (city, FIPS 75832) Location: 33.73456 N, 85.03148 W Population (1990): 1870 (717 housing units) Area: 16.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30179 Temple, ME Zip code(s): 04984 Temple, ND Zip code(s): 58852 Temple, NH Zip code(s): 03084 Temple, OK (town, FIPS 72750) Location: 34.27351 N, 98.23472 W Population (1990): 1223 (617 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73568 Temple, PA (borough, FIPS 76320) Location: 40.40830 N, 75.92104 W Population (1990): 1491 (708 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19560 Temple, TX (city, FIPS 72176) Location: 31.09766 N, 97.36346 W Population (1990): 46109 (20718 housing units) Area: 111.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76501, 76502, 76504 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Temple first used of the tabernacle, which is called "the temple of the Lord" (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ's human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called "the temple of God" (1 Cor. 3:16, 17). The Church is designated "an holy temple in the Lord" (Eph. 2:21). Heaven is also called a temple (Rev. 7:5). We read also of the heathen "temple of the great goddess Diana" (Acts 19:27). This word is generally used in Scripture of the sacred house erected on the summit of Mount Moriah for the worship of God. It is called "the temple" (1 Kings 6:17); "the temple [R.V., 'house'] of the Lord" (2 Kings 11:10); "thy holy temple" (Ps. 79:1); "the house of the Lord" (2 Chr. 23:5, 12); "the house of the God of Jacob" (Isa. 2:3); "the house of my glory" (60:7); an "house of prayer" (56:7; Matt. 21:13); "an house of sacrifice" (2 Chr. 7:12); "the house of their sanctuary" (2 Chr. 36:17); "the mountain of the Lord's house" (Isa. 2:2); "our holy and our beautiful house" (64:11); "the holy mount" (27:13); "the palace for the Lord God" (1 Chr. 29:1); "the tabernacle of witness" (2 Chr. 24:6); Zion" (Ps. 74:2; 84:7). Christ calls it "my Father's house" (John 2:16).
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