English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.

One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.

A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple.

One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.

Of or pertaining to a temple.

Same as Templet.

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.

Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.

A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.

A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.

The rate or degree of movement in time.

Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.