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Definition of Temple

Temple A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances. A local organization of Odd Fellows. A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely. The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear. 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. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. Related Definitions: Above, Administration, Among, An, And, Any, Appropriate, Arch, As, At, Back, Build, Building, Church, Dedicated, Deity, Divine, Ear, Edifice, Either, Erected, Eye, Fig, For, Forehead, Front, God, Head, Hence, Hold, In, India, Jehovah, Jerusalem, Jointed, Juggernaut, Jupiter, Keeping, Local, Loom, Odd, Of, On, One, Or, Organization, Pair, Passing, Place, Presence, Public, Side, Some, Space, Specially, Stretched, Temple, The, To, Transversely, Used, Web, Which, Worship, Zygomatic

Temple Quotations This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Kahlil Gibran I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Kahlil Gibran The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Benjamin Franklin

Temple Translations temple in Afrikaans is tempel temple in Dutch is slaap temple in French is tempe, temple temple in German is Tempel temple in Italian is tempia temple in Latin is templum temple in Portuguese is fontes temple in Spanish is sien, templo temple in Swedish is tinning, tempel

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