Definition of temple

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Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

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Beaucatcher :: Beaucatcher (n.) A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
Marai :: Marai (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.
Distyle :: Distyle (a.) Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like..
Octostyle :: Octostyle (a.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle..
Paphian :: Paphian (a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites..
Crotaphite :: Crotaphite (n.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (n.) Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship..
Temple :: Temple (v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god..
Peridrome :: Peridrome (n.) The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple..
Stone-horse :: Stonehenge (n.) An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple..
Temporomalar :: Temporomalar (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve..
Adytum :: Adytum (n.) The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum..
Monopteron :: Monopteron (n.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella..
Valhalla :: Valhalla (n.) Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria, consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany..
Monopteral :: Monopteral (a.) Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.
Fane :: Fane (n.) A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.
Pediment :: Pediment (n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple..
Crotaphitic :: Crotaphitic (n.) Pertaining to the temple; temporal.
Temple :: Temple (n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church..
Infratemporal :: Infratemporal (a.) Below the temple; below the temporal bone.
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