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justly required by God . . . than a perfect submission to his will in all things. Sir W. Temple.

Subordinacy; subordination. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. Sir W. Temple.

njured; to sustain loss or damage. Public business suffers by private infirmities. Sir W. Temple.

f-confidence; self-sufficiency. Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. Sir W. Temple.

"Make Cato sure." Addison. "A peace can not fail, provided we make sure of Spain." Sir W. Temple.

s the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight. Every pillar the temple to sustain. Chaucer.

a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold (Founding), to form the sand into a mold by a templet, instead of compressing it around the pattern.

A systyle temple or other edifice.

Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship. Acts xv. 16.

f the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. H. N. Martin.

Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.

otection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.

Same as Templet.

Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery. Temporal bone, a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing. It consists of an expanded squamosal portion above the ear, corresponding to the squamosal and zygoma of the lowe…

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.

Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.

Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. Goldsmith. -- Tense"ly, adv. -- Tense"ness, n.