单词 | temple |
释义 | templen.1 I. A building with sacred significance. 1. An edifice or place regarded primarily as the dwelling-place or ‘house’ of a deity or deities; hence, an edifice devoted to divine worship. a. In a general sense. (Often, as in quot. c8251, going back to a specific use.) cave-temple or cavern-temple, a natural cave used as a temple. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] templec825 minsterc1175 washing-templea1382 sacraryc1384 fane14.. naos1775 c825 Vesp. Psalter xlvii. 10 We onfengun god mildheortnisse ðine in midle temples ðines. c825 Vesp. Psalter lxxviii. 1 Tempel halig ðin. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626/2 Tempulle, templum. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1061 Chapel ne temple þat euer watz set. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts vii. 48 But he that is hyest of all dweleth not in temples made with hondes. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i God is as myghtye in the stable as in the temple. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 153 The Clowd-capt Towres, the gorgeous Pallaces, The solemne Temples, the great Globe it selfe..shall dissolue. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiv. 219 Take Temple for a covered standing structure, and the Jews had none till the time of Solomon. 1832 B. Disraeli Contarini Fleming IV. v. iv. 30 There is not a more beautiful and solemn temple in the world, than the great Cathedral of Seville. 1837 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) II. 243 The great cavern-temple of Tulzis. a1845 Syd. Smith in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) I. iii. 55 The true Christian..loves the good, under whatever temple, at whatever altar he may find them. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §52. 26 The simplest temples (σηκοὶ) of the primitive ages were merely hollow trees in which images were placed. b. Historically applied to the sacred buildings of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and other ancient nations; now, to those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, and the ethnic religions generally. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > of ancient nations or ethnic religions temple971 971 Blickl. Hom. 221 He manig templ & deofolgyld gebræc & gefylde. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 574 [Hi] ðam fela templa arærdon. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5076 Alle þa templen [c1300 Otho temples]. þe þa heðene hafden itimbrid. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 318 A temple hii vovnde vair inou & a maumet amidde. c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 293 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 117 Þe tempil of dyane. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1358 All tight to þe tempull of þere tore goddes. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 135 (margin) Tempilis & places of sacrifice to prophane Godis. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 205 The Citie [sc. Meaco in Japan] has seuenty Temples, in one of which are set three thousand three hundred thirty three gilded Idols. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 402 The wisest heart Of Solomon he [sc. Moloch] led by fraud to build His Temple right against the Temple of God. View more context for this quotation 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 305 The temple of the Sibylla Tiburtina spoken of by Lactantius. 1860 J. Gardner Faiths World II. 588/2 Pagoda..In Hindustan, Burmah, and China..implies a temple in which idols are worshipped. 1860 J. Gardner Faiths World II. 894/1 Their [Taoists] priests live in the temples, and are supported by the produce of the grounds attached to the establishment. c. spec. The sacred edifice (or any one of the successive edifices) at Jerusalem, the ‘House of the Lord’, and seat of the Jewish worship of Jehovah. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > Jewish templec897 great housea1382 tabernacle1388 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxvi. 252 Þa stanas on ðæm mæran temple Salomonnes wæron ær swæ wel gefegede. 971 Blickl. Hom. 27 He hine asette ofer þæs temples scylf. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 5 Ða gebrohte se deofol hine..and asette hine ofer þæs temples heahnesse. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11880 Te deofell brohhte crist. Vpp o þatt hallȝhe temmple. c1325 Metr. Hom. 75 In the temple fand thai than Seynt Symeon. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxi. 12 Jhesus entride in to the temple of God. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13745 Ihesu..say noon in þe tempul leued. c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 10946 Zakarie to tempille yede. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Cvi The rewlers of the tempil and the cheif prestis. 1611 Bible (King James) John viii. 2 Earely in the morning hee came againe into the Temple . View more context for this quotation 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lvii. 440 The Temple..was built of white stones of great size—the length of each about thirty-seven and a half feet, some even forty-five feet. d. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1609 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 116 Friendship..hath in it so much divinity, that..we must sepose some certain times for the outward service thereof..that time to me towards you is Tuesday, and my Temple, the Rose in Smith-field. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 275 The temple of fame is the shortest passage to riches and preferment. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 19 A temple of science now in ruins. 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. xxxi. 528 The true worship has its temple in the inmost soul. 1879 J. Stainer Music of Bible 5 Whose temple of worship was the canopy of heaven. e. A Jewish synagogue; now spec. the place of worship of Reform (and some Conservative) Jews. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > synagogue > [noun] synagoguec1175 habitation1535 temple1598 church1727 shul1816 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 277 But that this house hath beene a Temple or Jewish Sinagogue..I allow not. 1830 Monthly Intelligence May 75/2 There is at Frankfort..a considerable body of Jews, belonging to what is called the ‘New Temple’... Mr. Moritz mentions having visited their Temple. 1850 G. Aguilar Vale of Cedars v. 27 The little temple was erected..and the solemn rites of their peculiar faith adhered to. 1914 I. Cohen Jewish Life Mod. Times xi. 287 So occidentalized has the Reform temple become that a visitor at first sight can hardly distinguish whether he is in a synagogue or a chapel. 1942 C. Roth in Menorah Jrnl. Winter 4 Their place of worship (no longer a homely Schul but, with unhappy retrogression, a Temple). 1978 H. Kemelman Thursday Rabbi walked Out (1979) ii. 14 It's the place of women in the temple service I want to talk about, Rabbi. 1978 H. Kemelman Thursday Rabbi walked Out (1979) vii. 45 The synagogue, or as we call it, the temple. 1981 G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire vii. 56 Saturdays everybody dressed up and went to temple. 2. transferred. a. A building dedicated to public Christian worship; a church: esp. applied to a large or grand edifice. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] churcheOE God's houseOE kirkc1175 temple1399 steeple1555 church building1605 steeple-house1644 shrine1645 Dominical1659 religion shop1811 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles Prol. 3 A temple of þe trinite [in Bristol]..That cristis chirche is cleped. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 117 Magnyfycent & gudly housys fayr tempullys & churchys. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxvij Whan the last of them are come to the church, the Souldiours by and by discharge their pieces: and..about the Temple kepe warde till the counsell breake vp. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 471 The king determined to hear mass with the same pomp with which his predecessors had been surrounded when they repaired to the temples of the established religion. 1867 D. Duncan Disc. 120 By some classes of professing Christians, their places of worship are called temples..and are reverenced as sacred or holy. 1876 Haydn's Dict. Dates (ed. 15) 706/2 The ‘City Temple’, a dissenters' chapel..was opened 19 May, 1874. b. spec. In France and some French-speaking countries, a Protestant as distinguished from a Roman Catholic place of worship (the term ‘church’ (église) being usually confined to the latter). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > Protestant (French) temple1566 1566 R. Clough in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) II. 154 (note) They have laid and begun the foundation of four new tempells [in Antwerp], besides the great barne at St. Mychell's, which ys very handsomely trymmed for a preaching place. 1843 Murray's France 465/2 There are 12,000 Protestants at Nismes, who have 2 churches (temples).] 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 150 One of the first things I encountered in Pont de Montvert was..the Protestant temple. c. The central place of worship of the Mormons. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > Mormon temple1858 1858 Encycl. Brit. XV. 591/1 This great undertaking of Nauvoo was the building of the Mormon temple. 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 347/2 A revelation of great length..gave directions for the building of a splendid temple, the first stone of which was laid with great pomp on April 6th, 1841. 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 354/1 The tithes are supposed to be devoted to the building of the temple. 3. figurative. Any place regarded as occupied by the divine presence; spec. the person or body of a Christian. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > person or body of templec975 c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ii. 19 Un-duað ðone tempel ðis & on ðrim dagum ic awecco ðæt. c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ii. 21 He wutudlice gicwæð of temple lichoma his. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 580 Nyte ge þæt eowere lima syndon þæs Halgan Gastes tempel, seðe on eow is? c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15843 Crisstene follc iss cristess hus. & cristess hallȝhe temmple. c1290 St. Kath. 21 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 92 Ȝwy ne bi-holde ȝe þe heiȝe temple..Of þe heie heuene þat geth a-boute a-bouen eov niȝt and dai. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Cor. iii. 16 Witen ȝe not, that ȝe ben the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwellith in ȝou? c1450 Godstow Reg. 5 Iff we make clene oure tempil with-ynne. a1525 Ballat Our Lady in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 271 Tryvmphand tempill of þe trinite..Princes of pess..O mater Ihesu Salue maria. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11781 Couetous men comynly are cald aftur right, A temple to the tyrand, þat tises to syn. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 67 Most sacrilegious Murther hath broke ope The Lords anoynted Temple, and stole thence The Life o'th'Building. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 585 How could his Spirits dwelling in us constitute us Temples of God, unless he himself were God? 1693 J. Dryden tr. Veni Creator in Examen Poeticum 307 From Sin and Sorrow set us free, And make thy Temples worthy Thee. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 298 My favoured temple is an humble heart. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 21 Yet they have been made temples of the Holy Ghost. II. Senses relating to the Knights Templars. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > order of knights > [noun] > organization of templea1131 Templarya1661 Templarism1888 society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > headquarters > of order of knights templea1131 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > religio-military religious > Knights Templar > [noun] templea1131 orderc1330 Templary Knights1617 Templarya1661 a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1128 Ðes ilces geares com fram Ierusalem Hugo of þe temple. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) x. 88 Towardes the south right nygh, is the temple of Salomon... And in þat temple duellen the knyghtes of the temple, that weren wont to be clept Templeres, & þat was the fundacioun of here ordre. c1400 Brut 148 Amonge þe castelles he made an house of þe temple. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Templaries, or Knights of the Temple. 5. spec. a. Name of two of the Inns of Court (see inn n. 4) in London, known as the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple (see quot. 1728), which stand on the site of the buildings once occupied by the Templars (of which the church alone remains). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > Inns of Court > specific templec1405 Middle Inn1450 Middle Templea1524 Inn of Chancery1562 Serjeants Inn1565 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 569 A gentil Maunciple was ther of a Temple. 1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 392 To myn ryth reuerent..fadere John Paston, beyng jn the Indere Temple. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 97 The xviij day of August [1556] the mayer dynned at the rederes denner at the Tempulle. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 19 We sent vnto the Temple, vnto his Chamber. View more context for this quotation 1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Templaries These Templars first founded and built the Temples or Templars Inne in Fleetstreet. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 60. ⁋1 A Student of the Inner Temple. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Temples, among us, are two Inns of Court; thus call'd, because anciently the Dwelling-House of the Knights Templars... They are call'd the Inner and Middle Temple, in relation to Essex House, which was also a Part of the House of the Templars, and call'd the Outer Temple, because situate without Temple-Bar. 1905 C. T. Martin (title) Minutes of Parliament of the Middle Temple. b. Name of the place in Paris which formed the headquarters of the Templars in Europe. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun] > of Templars temple1617 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. ii. iv. 190 The second gate towards the East, is the gate of the..Temple. 1735 [see temple diamond n. at Compounds 3]. 1888 T. A. Archer in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 160/2 Louis VII..gave them a piece of marsh land outside Paris, which in later times became known as the Temple, and was the headquarters of the order in Europe. CompoundsGeneral attributive. C1. Simple attributive, in senses 1 – 3. a. temple-book n. ΚΠ 1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 28 Ther othe thei toke, Sweryng vpon the tempyl-boke. temple-building n. temple-captain n. temple-chamber n. ΚΠ 1857 J. Hamilton Lessons from Great Biogr. (1859) 219 The occupants of these temple-chambers. temple-chief n. temple-companion n. ΚΠ 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. xi. 263 Pindar,..Euripidês and Apollodôrus, name Erichthonius..as the being who was thus adopted and made the temple-companion of Athênê. temple-court n. ΚΠ a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas lxiv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 50 And round each temple-court In dormitories ranged..She saw the priests asleep. 1930 R. Graves Ten Poems More 13 In every temple-court, for all to see Flourishes one example of each tree In tricunx. temple-door n. ΚΠ c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (1875, Harl. MS. 7334) 2422 The rynges on þe tempul dore þat hange. a1745 J. Swift Direct. Birthday Song in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 151 What tho', for fifteen years and more, Janus hath lock'd his temple-door? 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah iv. 178 The temple door is in the middle of the portico. temple-end n. ΚΠ 1883 Art Jrnl. 83 The increased richness towards the temple end..might be more emphasised by designing the capitals of the columns with constantly increasing richness from the entrance end to the apse. temple-fellow n. ΚΠ 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor Pref. C j Honor and deseruing Vertue..were Temple-fellowes in old Rome. temple-festival n. temple-fronton n. temple-gate n. ΚΠ 1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xii. sig. Hv Open the temple gates vnto my loue, Open them wide that she may enter in. temple-gift n. temple-guard n. temple-hill n. temple-hospital n. temple-land n. ΚΠ c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 114 He gave them the superioriteis of the haill temple landis within there brughe. temple-master n. temple-ministrant n. temple-mount n. temple-music n. ΚΠ 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 398 Habakkuk must have been entitled to take part in the temple-music, and so must have been a Levite. temple-musician n. ΚΠ 1891 T. K. Cheyne Origin & Relig. Contents Psalter ii. 69 It [Ps. 37] is evidently the work of a temple-musician. temple-pavement n. temple-pediment n. temple-porch n. ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 77 The Temple-Porch two arched Cloysters flank'd. temple-priest n. ΚΠ 1911 N.E.D. at Temple Temple-priest. 1941 J. Masefield Gautama 31 Like a temple-priest intoning. temple-priesthood n. ΚΠ 1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. i. iii. 153 A Dissolution of the Temple-Priesthood. temple-prophet n. temple-revenue n. ΚΠ 1905 D. Smith Days of His Flesh vii. 59 Every adult Israelite..had to pay an annual tax of half a shekel to the Temple-revenue. temple-roof n. ΚΠ 1857 J. Hamilton Lessons from Great Biogr. (1859) 86 He heard from the temple-roof a whisper in his ear. temple-ruin n. temple-sanctuary n. temple-sculpture n. temple-service n. ΚΠ 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 24 The condition..in which there should be none of the special Temple-service. temple-shrine n. temple-singer n. temple-staff n. temple-stair n. ΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 78 Hymnotheo..Kiss'd the Saints' feet, who trod the Temple-Stairs. temple-stead n. ΚΠ 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 299 Now fain I would unto the temple-stead. temple-system n. temple-tax n. temple-treasury n. temple-union n. temple-veil n. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16762 + 85 Þe temple vayl clef in twoo. temple-vision n. temple-wall n. temple-warden n. ΚΠ 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Zeph. i. 4 The names of the templewardens with the priests. temple-wardenship n. ΚΠ 1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Churches xvii. 232 The fourth Temple-Wardenship seems to be of Artemis. temple-worship n. ΚΠ 1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) 102 The corrupt estate of the Jewish church..both in Temple-worship and in Synagogue-worship. 1714 R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. (ed. 2) II. 138 The ceremonial ordinances which chiefly gave directions about the temple-worship. temple-yard n. b. In sense 5. temple-exchange n. ΚΠ 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 28 He sits..every evening, from five till eight, under the clock, at the Temple-exchange. temple-garden n. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iv. 125 This brawle to day, Growne to this faction in the Temple Garden, Shall send betweene the Red-Rose and the White, A thousand Soules to Death and deadly Night. View more context for this quotation temple-hall n. c. Appositive. temple-house n. ΚΠ ?13.. All Saints 41 in Herrig Archiv LXXIX. 435 Thus was ordeynd þis temple-hous [the Pantheon] Off all deuyllus, to haue þer cours. temple-palace n. ΚΠ 1851 Buried City East Nineveh vii. 105 The architecture of the Assyrians, as illustrated in its only relics, the great Temple-palaces. temple-pyramid n. ΚΠ 1948 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 127 (caption) High and steep were the temple pyramids of the Maya. 1966 M. D. Coe Maya v. 94 Towering above all are the mighty temple-pyramids built from limestone blocks over a rubble core. temple-tomb n. ΚΠ 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 118 The great temple-tomb is in high festival for the Birthday of the Saviour [Buddha]. temple-tower n. ΚΠ 1860 G. Rawlinson in W. Smith Dict. Bible 158/2 An ancient Babylonian temple-tower. C2. Obj. and objective genitive. a. temple-keeper n. temple-robber n. ΚΠ 1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus in Dodsley's Select Coll. Old Plays IX. 163 The temple-robber..to the altar flies. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 249 Temple-robbers..stealing away plates of gold from the statues of the gods. temple-sweeper n. temple-visiting n. temple-haunting adj. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vi. 4 This Guest of Summer, The Temple-haunting Barlet. b. Instrumental, similative. temple-crowned adj. ΚΠ 1883 R. Bridges Prometheus 36 The temple-crownèd heights. temple-like adj. ΚΠ 1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. d8 Representing Solomons Temple-like Foundations of a State. temple-sacred adj. temple-treated adj. ΚΠ 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 45 A quaint device, Pillared and temple-treated Belvedere. C3. Special combinations. Also Temple-bar n. temple block n. a percussion instrument of oriental origin consisting of a hollow block of wood which is struck with a drum-stick; also known as a wood-block n. (b) at wood n.1 Compounds 2a; usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > wood blocks wood-block1837 pan1874 paiban1884 Chinese block1926 temple block1929 slit drum1933 slit-gong1938 1929 Melody Maker Mar. 295/2 The same remark applies to the Temple blocks, and even the tambourine can easily be played too loudly. 1964 J. Carter in Norton & Spacey Drums & Drumming Today 40 How I yearn for the days of temple blocks and saucepan lids. Categories » temple children n. children in the service of temples in India. Temple church n. see 5. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Temple The chief Officer was the Master of the Temple... And from him, the chief Minister of the Temple Church is still call'd Master of the Temple. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [noun] > artificial diamond temple diamond1735 rhinestone1890 1735 Dict. Polygraph. I. S vij The factitious diamonds..call'd temple Diamonds, because the best of them are made in the temple at Paris, are vastly short of the genuine ones. temple-foundling n. ? a foundling deposited at the Temple (sense 5). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > foundling found child (brat, etc.)eOE foundlinga1300 strodlingc1490 woods colt1895 temple-foundling1905 1905 Athenæum 29 July 146/1 The last of the Temple foundlings, Mary Ann Littlefield, survived as late as 1865, and was supposed to have been the original of Miss Flite in Dickens's ‘Bleak House’. Temple parliament n. = parliament n.1 4a. ΚΠ 1641 W. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 285 Friday is the day of Temple parliament. 1905 Daily News 15 July 4 The transactions of the Middle Temple ‘Parliaments’, beginning from the year 1501. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Temple-pickling, the Pumping of Bailives, Bumms, Setters, Pick-pockets, &c. temple prostitute n. a woman maintained by a temple, who performs rituals of a sexual nature (cf. devadasi n.); also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > prostitution > [noun] > participant in temple prostitute1890 1890 A. B. Ellis Eὡe-speaking Peoples ix. 141 Girls dedicated to a god do not necessarily serve him during the whole of their lives... In Dahomi there seems to be a marked distinction between those who actually minister to the service of the temple, and those who are merely temple prostitutes. 1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 28 Private rites of magic send The temple prostitutes to sleep. 1980 S. T. Haymon Death & Pregnant Virgin xi. 84 Poor old Charlie! Thought he'd recruited a vestal virgin when what he'd got was a temple prostitute! temple prostitution n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > prostitution > [noun] temple prostitution1912 1912 J. N. Farquhar Primer of Hinduism xvi. 194 We are now in a position to realise how it has been possible for the Hindu to admit such things as..cruel torture, temple prostitution. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. iv. 106 The custom of temple prostitution has not merely been preserved down to our own day.., but the temples of the goddesses of love..were traditionally the favored places of assignation for lovers. temple-ring n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 298 Another betrothal ring..called ‘temple’ or ‘tower’, from the figure of the sacred temple placed on their summit. temple-state n. (in antiquity) a city-state centred on a temple or similar sacred edifice. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > where specific conditions prevail police state1851 welfare state1894 Rechtsstaat1912 temple-state1920 kulturstaat1925 garrison state1937 the Illfare State1952 opportunity state1957 1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 150/2 There is no temple-state stage, no stage of priest Kings, in the Greek record. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Jan. 3/2 The Pope's temporal domain..is not a city-state but a temple-state. temple-title n. the name under which a deceased Chinese emperor is worshipped. temple-trotter n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > lawyer's clerk temple-trotter1861 1861 Sat. Rev. 30 Nov. 560 An extremely low lawyer's clerk, of the genus which in old professional slang was called ‘Temple-trotter’. Derivatives ˈtempleful n. as many or as much as fills a temple. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > as many or much as fills a temple templeful1909 1909 Expositor Oct. 316 A whole templeful of men whose consciences kept them from casting a stone. ˈtempleward adv. towards the temple. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [adverb] templeward1868 1868 J. G. Whittier Meeting 21 Nor ritual-bound nor templeward Walks the free spirit of the Lord! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). templen.2 1. a. The flattened region on each side of the (human) forehead. (Chiefly in plural) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > forehead > [noun] > parts of forehead thunwanga1000 templec1310 haffet1513 brows1598 glabella1823 ophryon1878 brow-ridge1898 c1310 St. Margaret 219 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 231 Sche toke him bi þe temples [earlier version bi þe toppe]; about sche him swong. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxxxi. 5 Þe tempils of þi heued waxis heuy. a1400 Poem on Blood-letting in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 189 Two [places] at the templys thay mot blede. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 631/2 Tempelle, tempora. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges iv. 21 Then Iael..smote the nale in thorow the temples of his heade, so yt he sancke to ye earth. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §12 Let no dreames my head infest, But such as Jacobs temples blest. View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 131 And Wreaths of Hay his Sun-burnt Temples shade. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 12 A scorching clime, And toil, had..Roughened the brow, the temples bared. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xxv. 11 I..shall claim the wreath Due to the poet's temples. b. transferred. A corresponding part in lower animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > forehead > temple temple1769 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 181 The temples, rump and belly are of a violet colour. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 365 External anatomy of insects... Tempora (the Temples). Those parts which lie on the outside of the posterior half of the eyes. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xv. 356 My dinner consisted of a piece of flesh from the temple of the elephant. 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Temple,..Ornithol., Zool. Applied to the lateral region of the head comprised between the eyes and ears. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > other dorlot1340 horn1340 vitremytec1386 templesc1430 bycocket1464 burlet1490 knapscall1498 shapion1504 shaffron1511 paste1527 attire1530 faille1530 muzzle1542 corneta1547 abacot1548 wase1548 wrapper1548 tiring1552 basket1555 bilimenta1556 Paris head1561 shadow1578 head-roll1583 mitre1585 whitehead1588 crispa1592 ship-tire1602 oreillet1603 scoffion1604 coif1617 aigrette1631 egreta1645 drail1647 topknotc1686 slop1688 Burgundy1701 bandore1708 fly-cap1753 capriole1756 lappet-head1761 fly1773 turban1776 pouf1788 knapscapa1802 chip1804 toque1817 bonnet1837 casquette1840 war bonnet1845 taj1851 pugree1859 kennel1896 roach1910 Deely bobber1982 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [noun] > jewellery worn on temples templesc1430 templet1530 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 56 A fowle visage with gay temples of atyre. 1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 116 (C'tess Warwick) That my grete templys with the Baleys be sold to the vtmest pryse. 1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 330/1 [Marginal note on quot. 1439] Jewels hanging on womens foreheads by Bodkins thrust into their hair.] 3. Each of the side-members or limbs of a pair of spectacles, which clasp the sides of the head of the wearer. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > other parts of spectacles bow1711 frame1729 rims1766 earpiece1824 side glass1830 nosepiece1866 temple1877 nose1895 nose-bridge1923 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Temple..one of the bars on the outer ends of the spectacle bows [i.e. rims of the lenses] by which the spectacles are made to clasp the head of the wearer. [Hence in later Dicts.] Compounds C1. General attributive. temple-bone n. ΚΠ 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 583 Where it yssueth out of the Temple-bone it is broader and thicker. 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xiv. 75 The temple-bones..are slow in coming to perfection. temple-pulse n. ΚΠ 1891 Daily News 28 Oct. 7/2 The witness was feeling the temple pulse while administering. temple-shot n. ΚΠ 1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E. Central Afr. xxi. 232 I ran in and killed him with a temple shot from my Metford. C2. temple-spectacles n. spectacles having jointed sidelimbs that grasp the temples. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > other types of spectacles half-moon glasses1607 half-moon spectacles1607 blinkers1732 temple-spectacles1762 reading glass1853 distance glasses1864 horn spectacles1893 bifocal1899 trifocal1899 horn-rims1927 harlequin spectacles1940 harlequin glasses1945 library frame1948 aviator1951 library glasses1959 library spectacles1962 multifocals1962 wire-rim1968 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 237 He had more powder in his hair,..a pair of temple spectacles, and his hat under his arm. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). templen.3 1. A contrivance for keeping cloth stretched to its proper width in the loom during the process of weaving. Usually plural.In the hand-loom, a pair of flat rods, having toothed ends which caught the selvedge on each side; in the power-loom, various rotary devices are used. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > for keeping cloth stretched temple1483 templet1831 1483 Cath. Angl. 379/2 A Tempylle of a wefere, virgula. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 348/1 Temples,..two Staves with broad ends set with sharp Pins,..by the pins putting into the selvage of the Cloth it is kept open while it is in Weaving. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 169 The Sum that is now given for the Encouragement of that Branch [Weaving], exclusive of the Reeds, Harness, Shuttles, and Temples. 1863 J. Watson Theory & Pract. Weaving 150 The Breast Beam is the rail in front of the loom... It is on this rail that the self acting temples are fixed. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Temples, a wooden stretcher of adjustable length, having points at either end, used by weavers to keep the cloth as woven of the proper width in the loom... Often called a ‘pair o' temples’. 1898 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 10 Dec. (E.D.D.) The temples on looms to-day..consist of wheels on either side of the woven piece, having projecting pins all round their circumferences. 2. = template n. 2. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for marking out work > [noun] > templates mitre box1678 temple1688 profile1751 curb1792 rod1793 template1819 turning-piece1823 mitring box1845 mitre block1846 former1847 sweep1885 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 394/2 Temple Moulds..are Boards cut in that for[m] as the Stone is to be cut. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Temple-mold, a pattern, or mould used by masons in fashioning their work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). templev. 1. transitive. To enclose in or as in a temple, to enshrine; to honour with a temple or temples, to build a temple to or for. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [verb (transitive)] > enclose in or as in temple1593 society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [verb (transitive)] > honour with temple1593 society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > shrine > [verb (transitive)] > provide with or enclose in a shrine shrinec1290 ferterc1325 enshrine1586 temple1593 entemple1603 enchase1643 1593 R. Southwell St. Peter's Complaint 27 Christ, as my God, was templed in my thought. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxiv. sig. Zv The Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken god. 1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 57 Templed, and taught, and rited as thou art. 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 514 Immured..In..her holy home, With many a lovely handmaiden around In starry palace templed. 1936 A. Clarke Coll. Poems 98 We saw again How Brigid, while her women slept Around her, temple'd by the flame, Sat in a carven chair. 2. To make or fashion into a temple. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [verb (transitive)] > make or fashion into temple1845 1845 [implied in: P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 3 O'er which ye rise in templed majesty. (at templed adj. 2)]. 1849 [implied in: Quinton Heaven's Antidote 42 Canticles of praise will resound through the templed cottage. (at templed adj. 2)]. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in or as in other buildings cabin1586 den1610 stable1651 hut1691 templea1711 bog-trota1734 sty1748 village1819 shanty1840 shack1895 flat1966 a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 62 Bless'd Jesu! deign to Temple in my Mind. a1711 T. Ken Sion iii, in Wks. (1721) IV. 412 O Jesu,..I feel thee templing in my Heart. Derivatives ˈtempling n. ΚΠ a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 641 The Deifying and invocating of Saints and Angels,..the adoring and templing of Reliques. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 105 In the Demon-worship they had many other rites, as worshipping of Columnes, Templing of Reliques. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1c825n.2c1310n.31483v.1593 |
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