Temples
A surname.
• Stemple, pelmets, stempel, stemple
temples
plural of temple
temples
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of temple
• Stemple, pelmets, stempel, stemple
Source: Wiktionary
Tem"ple, n. Etym: [Cf. Templet.] (Weaving)
Definition: A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Tem"ple, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
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.
Tem"ple, n. Etym: [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. 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.
2. (Jewish Antiq.)
Definition: The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. John x. 23.
3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. 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.
4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. "The temple of his body." John ii. 21. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. iii. 16. The groves were God's first temples. Bryant. 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.
Tem"ple, v. t.
Definition: To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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