middle temple

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middle temple - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked
     out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. ? a piece of land marked off,
     land dedicated to a god: cf. F. t['e]mple, from the Latin.
     Cf. Contemplate.]
     1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity;
        as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in
        India. "The temple of mighty Mars." --Chaucer.
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     2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the
        worship of Jehovah.
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              Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
                                                    --John x. 23.
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     3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of
        public worship; a church.
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              Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the
              authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple
              consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?
                                                    --Buckminster.
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     4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially
        resides. "The temple of his body." --John ii. 21.
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              Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that
              the spirit of God dwelleth in you?    --1 Cor. iii.
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              The groves were God's first temples.  --Bryant.
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     5. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of
        ordinances.
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     6. A local organization of Odd Fellows.
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     Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges
        of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on
        the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights
        Templars, called the Temple.
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