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.
                                                  16.
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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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