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.