4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. "The temple of his body." John ii. 21.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Cor. iii. 16.
The groves were God's first temples.
Bryant. 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.
Temple
(Tem"ple) v. t. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god. [R.] Feltham.
Templed
(Tem"pled) a. Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills.
S. F. Smith.
