Solitary, family, and templar devotion.
Coleridge.
Tem"plate (?), n. Same as Templet.
Tem"ple (?), n. [Cf. Templet.] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom
for keeping the web stretched transversely.
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.
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. témple, 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?