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Teocalli :: Teocalli (n.) Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge..

Template :: Template (n.) Same as Templet.

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..

Temple :: Temple (n.) 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..

Tetrastyle :: Tetrastyle (a.) Having four columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or colonnade..

Temple :: Temple (n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; 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..

Templet :: Templet (n.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure..

Distyle :: Distyle (a.) Having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like..

Templet :: Templet (n.) A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet..

Crotaphite :: Crotaphite (n.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

Temporal :: Temporal (a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery..

Templar :: Templar (a.) Of or pertaining to a temple.

Cella :: Cella (n.) The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes..

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

Monopteron :: Monopteron (n.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella..

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..

Decastyle :: Decastyle (a.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc..

Marai :: Marai (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

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