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Temple
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
(2):
(n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.
(3):
(n.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
(4):
(n.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
(7):
(n.) A local organization of Odd Fellows.
(8):
(n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
(9):
(n.) Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
(10):
(v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Temple'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/temple.html. 1828.
