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Vinony

temple

noun

  1. flat part of either side of the head
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noun

  1. religious building
  2. place of worship of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  3. (in India) Hindu temple
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛm.pl̩/

name

  1. Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.
  2. Either of two of the Inns of Court in London (the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple), built on a site once occupied by the Knights Templar.

    “Up to his five-and-twentieth year he had been industrious and steady, had kept his terms in the Temple, and studied late and early.”

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.

  1. A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, tempel, borrowed from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.

  1. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god

    “though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God”