Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked
out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. ? a piece of land marked off,
land dedicated to a god: cf. F. t['e]mple, 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.) 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}, & {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.