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eled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason. The glass of fashion and the mold of form. Shak.

hout a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.

A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.

th, nor would prolong Life much. Milton. All left the world much as they found it. Sir W. Temple.

ty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine. Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. Sir W. Temple.

of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of. Sir W. Temple.

Woody. [R.] Paradise itself was but a kind of nemorous temple. Evelyn.

Servants of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.

A templet or gauge.

A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.

r than it is broad. The best figure of a garden I esteem an oblong upon a descent. Sir W. Temple.

leness. I have known great cures done by obstinate resolution of drinking no wine. Sir W. Temple. No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Pope. Of sense and outward things. Wordsworth.

Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle. -- n.

reme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes. There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood. Longfellow.

The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself. 1 Kings vi. 19. Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God. Milton.

r prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory [temple] . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the Oratory (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded by St. Philip Neri, living in commun…

A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower- like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.

Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.

A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]