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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [Cf. {Templet}.] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. [1913 Webster] Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. --John x. 23. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. "The temple of his body." --John ii. 21. [1913 Webster] Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? --1 Cor. iii. 16. [1913 Webster] The groves were God's first temples. --Bryant. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 6. A local organization of Odd Fellows. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Temple \Tem"ple\, v. t. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] --Feltham. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: temple n 1: place of worship consisting of 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: an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes 4: (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation [syn: {synagogue}, {temple}, {tabernacle}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: temple /tɑ̃pl/ temple