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Pseuso-peripteral :: Pseuso-peripteral (a.) Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end..

Amphiprostyle :: Amphiprostyle (n.) An amphiprostyle temple or edifice.

Hexastyle :: Hexastyle (n.) A hexastyle portico or temple.

Temple :: Temple (n.) Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.

Candelabrum :: Candelabrum (n.) A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple..

Laver :: Laver (n.) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.

Sekes :: Sekes (n.) A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.

Penetralia :: Penetralia (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace..

Templar :: Templar (n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple..

Hexastyle :: Hexastyle (a.) Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple.

Temporomalar :: Temporomalar (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve..

Janus :: "Janus (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace..

Temple :: Temple (n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India..

Oracle :: Oracle (n.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself..

Favorite :: Favorite (n.) Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.

Peristyle :: Peristyle (n.) A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade..

Strickle :: Strickle (n.) A templet; a pattern.

Athenaeum :: Athenaeum (n.) A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students..

Dipteral :: Dipteral (a.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple..

Pythian :: Pythian (a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi..

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