Temple (?), n. [Cf. Templet.] (Weaving) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
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Temple, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. &unr_; 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.
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2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
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Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. John x. 23.
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3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
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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.
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4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. “The temple of his body.” John ii. 21.
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Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Cor. iii. 16.
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The groves were God's first temples. Bryant.
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5. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
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6. A local organization of Odd Fellows.
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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.
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