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A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.

r hands. Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. Sir W. Temple.

, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate. Milton. [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise. Sir T. Herbert.

, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace.

Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n.

In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple.

The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.

lumns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

rs; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.

monk, "I have no lust to pleye." Chaucer. Men are apt to play with their healths. Sir W. Temple.

o spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

e into anything. [Obs.] His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground. Sir W. Temple.

The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers. See Illust. of Column.

ge porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple. Dryden.

A poultice. [Obs.] W. Temple.

e inclined to practice on others, and as little that others should practice on me. Sir W. Temple.

A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2.

e the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God. The priests in the temple profane the sabbath. Matt. xii. 5.

The porch or vestibule of a temple.