temple

1. a building or place dedicated to the worship of a deity or deities

2. a Mormon church

3. US another name for a synagogue

4. any Christian church, esp a large or imposing one

5. any place or object regarded as a shrine where God makes himself present, esp the body of a person who has been sanctified or saved by grace

temple

the region on each side of the head in front of the ear and above the cheek bone

temple

the part of a loom that keeps the cloth being woven stretched to the correct width

Temple

1. Shirley, married name Shirley Temple Black. born 1928, US film actress and politician. Her films as a child star include Little Miss Marker (1934), Wee Willie Winkie (1937), and Heidi (1937). She was US ambassador to Ghana (1974-- 76) and to Czechoslovakia (1989--92)

2. Sir William. 1628--99, English diplomat and essayist. He negotiated the Triple Alliance (1668) and the marriage of William of Orange to Mary II

3. William. 1881--1944, English prelate and advocate of social reform; archbishop of Canterbury (1942--44)

Temple

1. either of two buildings in London and Paris that belonged to the Templars. The one in London now houses two of the chief law societies

2. any of three buildings or groups of buildings erected by the Jews in ancient Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah

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Temple

An edifice dedicated to the service of a deity or deities, and connected with a system of worship; an edifice erected as a place of public worship.

temple

temple, 1: at Agrigentum

1. An impressive edifice for a particular public use.

2. A Classical edifice dedicated to the service of an ancient deity, usually connected with a system of worship.

3. A structure specifically used for worship, for example, a synagogue or a Buddhist temple.

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Miss Temple had looked down when he first began to speak to her; but she now gazed straight before her, and her face, naturally pale as marble, appeared to be assuming also the coldness and fixity of that material; especially her mouth, closed as if it would have required a sculptor's chisel to open it, and her brow settled gradually into petrified severity.

"Miss Temple, Miss Temple, what--WHAT is that girl with curled hair?

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287-293) `In this place I am minded to build a glorious temple to be an oracle for men, and here they will always bring perfect hecatombs, both they who dwell in rich Peloponnesus and the men of Europe and from all the wave-washed isles, coming to question me.

And the countless tribes of men built the whole temple of wrought stones, to be sung of for ever.

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In a few isolated countries they still retained their age-old power; but Matai Shang, their hekkador, Father of Therns, had been driven from his temple. Strenuous had been our endeavors to capture him; but with a few of the faithful he had escaped, and was in hiding--where we knew not.

"I have heard of the Temple of the Sun, Dator," replied Matai Shang, "but never have I heard that its prisoners could be released before the allotted year of their incarceration had elapsed.

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Only the women and children fell prey to the Mahars--they being the weakest and most tender--and when they had satisfied their appetite for human flesh, some of them devouring two and three of the slaves, there were only a score of full-grown men left, and I thought that for some reason these were to be spared, but such was far from the case, for as the last Mahar crawled to her rock the queen's thipdars darted into the air, circled the temple once and then, hissing like steam engines, swooped down upon the remaining slaves.

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As Tarzan lay there upon his back he saw that the temple entirely surrounded the little inclosure, and that on all sides its lofty walls rose high above him.

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And I will do according to their word, I =will= purify the fabric of the Temple! and the unclean stones in which the plague is, I will remove and cast out of the building.''

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She knows that you are coming, and ere ever a vandal foot is set within the precincts of the Temple of Issus, if such a calamity should befall, Dejah Thoris will be put away for ever from the last faint hope of rescue."

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Leaping to his feet the conqueror placed a foot upon the carcass of his kill, raised his face toward the heavens, and gave voice to so hideous a cry that both La and Werper trembled as it reverberated through the temple.

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Eventually Judge Temple concluded to bestow the necessary land, and to erect the required edifice at his own expense.

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