tempestively 
tempestivelyt (tem'pes-tiv-li), adv. 
ably. 
Dancing is a pleasant recreation of body and mind, if 
tempestively used. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 499. 
tempestivityt (tem-pes-tiv'i-ti), n. [= Sp. 
tcmpesUvidad = Olt. tempesttvita, < L. tcmpcsti- 
vita(t-)s, timeliness, seasonableness, < tcmpesti- 
vus, timely, seasonable: see tempestive.~\ Sea- 
sonableness. 
Since their dispersion, and habitation in countries whose 
constitutions admit not such tempestittity of harvests, . . . 
there will be found a great disparity in their observations. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 3. 
tempest-tossed, tempest-tost (tem'pest-tost), 
a. Tossed by or as by a tempest. 
Though his bark cannot be lost, 
Yet it shall be tempest-tost. 
Shale., Macbeth, i. 3. 25. 
tempestuous (tem-pes'tu-us), a. [< OF. tem- 
pestueux, F. tempetueux = Pr. tempestuos, tem- 
pestos = Sp. Pg. tempestuoso = It. tempestoso, < 
LL. tempestuosus, stormy, turbulent, < L. tem- 
pestas, tempest : see tempest.'] 1 . Very stormy ; 
turbulent ; rough with wind ; stormy : as, a tem- 
pestuous night. Also used figuratively. 
We had now very tempestuous Weather, and excessive 
Rains, which so swell'd the River that it overflowed its 
Banks ; so that we had much ado to keep our Ship safe. 
Dumpier, Voyages, I. 360. 
Her looks grow black as a tempestuous wind. 
Dryden, Indian Emperor, iv. 4. 
High in his hall, rock'd in a chair of state, 
The king with his tempestuous council sate. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Epistles, xi. 76. 
2. Subject to fits of stormy passion ; impetu- 
ous. 
Bruno was passionate, tempestuous, and weak. Ouida. 
tempestuously (tem-pes'tu-us-li), adv. In a 
tempestuous manner; witn great violence or 
commotion; turbulently. 
tempestuousness (tem-pes'tu-us-nes), n. The 
state or character of being tempestuous; stor- 
miness; turbulence. 
templar (tem'plar), n. [Formerly also tempter; 
< ME. tcmplere '= D. tempelier = G. templer, < 
OF. (and F.) templier = Pr. templier = Sp. Pg. 
templario = It. tempiere, < ML. templarius, a 
templar, prop, adj., < L. templum, a temple: see 
temple 1 .] I. leap.] A member of a military 
order, also called Knights Templars or Knights 
of the Temple, from the early headquarters of 
the order in the Crusaders' palace at Jerusalem 
(the so-called temple of Solomon). The order was 
founded at Jerusalem about 1118, and was confirmed by 
the Pope in 1128. Its special aim was protection to pil- 
grims on the way to the holy shrines, and the distinguish- 
ing garb of the knights was a white mantle with a red 
cross. The order took a leading part in the conduct of 
the Crusades, and spread rapidly, acquiring great wealth 
and influence in Spain, France, England, and other coun- 
tries in Europe. Its chief seats in the East were Jerusa- 
lem, Acre, and Cyprus, and its European headquarters was 
a foundation called the Temple, then just outside of Paris. 
The members were composed of knights, men-at-arms, 
and chaplains ; they were grouped in commanderies, with 
a preceptor at the head of each province, and a grand 
master at the head of the order. The Templars were ac- 
cused of heresy, immorality, and other offenses by Philip 
IV. of France in 1307, and the order was suppressed by 
the Council of Vienne in 1312. 
In that Temple duellen the Knyghtes of the Temple, 
that weren wont to be clept Templeres; and that was the 
foundacioun of here Ordre. MandeviUe, Travels, p. 88. 
2. A student of the law, or a lawyer, so called 
from having chambers in the Temple in London. 
See temple^, 5. 
The reader cannot but observe what pains I have been 
at in polishing the style of my book to the greatest exact- 
ness : nor have I been less diligent in refining the orthog- 
raphy by spelling the words in the very same manner as 
they are pronounced by the chief patterns of politeness at 
court, at levees, at assemblies, at play-houses, at the prime 
visiting places, by young templers, and by gentlemen-com- 
moners of both universities, who have lived at least a 
twelvemonth in town, and kept the best company. 
Sirift, Polite Conversation, Int. 
The Whigs answered that it was idle to apply ordinary 
rules to a country in a state of revolution ; that the great 
question now depending was not to be decided by the saws 
of pedantic Templars. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., x. 
Good Templar, a member of the Society of Good Tem- 
plars, organized for the promotion of total abstinence from 
intoxicating drinks, and modeled in some respects upon 
the system of freemasonry. Knights Templars, (a) See 
def. 1. (6) See knight. 
templar (tem'plar), a. [< LL. templaris, of or 
pertaining to a temple, < L. templum, temple : 
see temple^-.] Of, pertaining to, or performed 
in a temple. [Rare.] 
Solitary, family, and templar devotion. Coleridge. 
template (tem'plat), n. Same as templet. 
temple 1 (tem'pl), . [< ME. temple, < AS. 
tempel = D. G. Sw. Dan. tempel = OF. (and F.) 
6224 
Season- temple = Sp. Pg. templo = It. tempio, < L. tem- 
plum, an open space, the circuit of the heavens, 
a consecrated place, a temple, prob. for *!cmn- 
lum, akin to Gr. rt/ievoe, a piece of ground cut or 
marked off, a sacred inclosure, < rep/em, ra/ieiv, 
cut (see temenos).] 1. An edifice dedicated to 
the service of a deity or deities, and connected 
with a system of worship. The most celebrated and 
architecturally perfect of the ancient temples were those 
ol the Greeks, as that of Zeus at Olympia, that of Athena 
Parthenos(the Parthenon) at Athens, and that of Apollo at 
Delphi. The form ordinarily given to classical temples was 
Greek Temple. Diagram illustrating the construction and arrange- 
ment of the Doric temple of Athena, >Egina. 
A, stereobate. B, stylobate. C, C, columns of peristyle. A interior 
columns of cella. E, capital of column: ft, abacus; i, echinus; j, 
hypotrachelium. F, entablature : a, architrave ; *, frieze ; c, cor- 
nice : rf, triglyph ; e, metope ; /, /, mutules ; , regula with guttae. G, 
acroterium. ff, H, portions of the pediment. 7. /, walls of cella. 
K, K, hypothetical apertures in the roof for the admission of light to 
the cella. 
that of a rectangle, but sometimes the construction was 
circular, or even of irregular plan. Vitruvius divides tem- 
ples into eight kinds, according to the arrangement of their 
columns : namely, temples in antis(aee antai), prostyle, am- 
phiprostyle, peripteral, dipteral, pseudodipteral, hypethral, 
and rnotiapteral. (See these words.) In regard to inter- 
columniatiou, they are further distinguished as pycnostyle, 
systyle, eustyle, diastyle, and areostyle structures, and in 
regard to the number of columns in front, as tetrastyle, 
hexastyle, octastyle, and deeastyle. (See these words.) Cir- 
cular temples are known as monopteral, with or without 
a cella. The temples of ancient Egypt are impressive 
from their great size and from the number and mass 
of the pillars ordinarily introduced in their construc- 
tion ; those of India are remarkable for the elaborate- 
ness of their plan and elevation, and the lavishness of 
their sculptured decoration. See also cuts under dip- 
teral, cella, monopteron, octastyle, pantheon, opisthodomos, 
and prostyle. 
In this connection the term "house of God" has quite 
a different sense from that which we connect with it when 
we apply it to a Christian place of worship. A temple is 
not a meeting-place for worshippers ; for many ancient 
temples were open only to priests, and as a general rule 
the altar, which was the true place of worship, stood not 
within the house but before the door. The temple is the 
dwelling-house of the deity to which it is consecrated, 
whose presence is marked by a statue or other sacred sym- 
bol ; and in it his sacred treasures, the gifts and tribute 
of his worshippers, are kept, under the charge of his at- 
tendants or priests. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 165. 
2. The religious edifice of the Jews in Jerusalem. 
There were three buildings successively erected in the 
same spot, and entitled, from the names of their builders, 
the temple of Solomon, the temple of Zerubbabel, and 
the temple of Herod. The first was built by Solomon, and 
was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar about 586 B. 0. The 
second was built by the Jews on their return from the 
captivity (about 637 B. c.), and was pillaged or partially 
destroyed several times, as by Antiochus Epiphanes, Pom- 
pey, and Herod. The third, the largest and most magnifi- 
cent of the three, was begun by Herod the Great, and was 
completely destroyed at the capture of Jerusalem by the 
Romans (A. I). 70). Various attempts have been made to- 
ward the restoration of the first and the third of these 
temples, but scholars are not agreed in respect to archi- 
tectural details. The ornament and design were in any 
case of severe and simple character, though rich materials 
were used. The successive temples all consisted of a com- 
bination of buildings, comprising courts separated from 
and arising one above another, and provided also with 
chambers for the use of the priests and for educational 
purposes. The inclosure of Herod's temple covered nine- 
teen acres. It comprised an outer court of the Gen- 
tiles, a court of the women, a court of Israel, a court of 
the priests, and the temple building, with the holy place, 
and within all entered only once a year, and only by 
the high priest the holy of holies. Within the court of 
the priests were the great altar and the laver, within the 
holy place the golden candlestick, the altar of incense, 
and the table for the showbread, and within the holy of 
holies the ark of the covenant and the mercy-seat. 
Out of that seyd Temple cure Lord drof the Byggeres 
and the Selleres. Ma.ni.emLU, Travels, p. 86. 
And he sware, By this Habitacle that is, the Themple. 
Purehas, Pilgrimage, p. 13& 
3. An edifice erected as a place of public 
worship; a church; in France, specifically, a 
Protestant church, as distinguished from a Ro- 
man Catholic place of worship, which alone is 
usually spoken of as a church (eglise). 
That time [for the outward service] to me towards you 
is Tuesday, and my temple the Rose in Smithfield. 
Donne, Letters, xxiv. 
templify 
The true Christian . . . loves the good, under whatever 
temple, at whatever altar he may find them. 
Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland, iii. 
4. Metaphorically, any place in which the di- 
vine presence specially resides. 
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy 
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are 
not your own? 1 Cor. vi. 19. 
My chamber were no temple, my body were no temple, 
except God came to it. Donne, Sermons, iv. 
5. [_('<ip.] Thenameof two semi-monastic estab- 
lishments of the middle ages, one in London, 
the other in Paris, occupied by the Knights Tem- 
plars. The Temple Church, London, is the only part of 
either establishment now existing. On the site of the 
London Temple the two Inns of Court called the Middle 
Temple and Inner Temple now stand ; they have long been 
occupied by barristers, and are the joint property of thetwo 
societies called the Societies of the Inner and of the Mid- 
dle Temple, which have the right of calling candidates to 
the degree of barrister. The Temple in Paris was the pris- 
on of Louis XVI. and the royal family during their suffer- 
ings in 1792 and 1793. 
6f. An inn of court. 
A gentle maunciple was ther of a temple. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to 0. T., 1. 567. 
Master of the temple. See masteri. Temple jar, 
temple vase, a jar or vase such as are used for the decora- 
tion and ceremonial of religious temples in China, Japan, 
etc. Temple jewelry. See jewelry. 
temple 1 (tem'pl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. templed, 
ppr. templing. [< temple^, n.] To build a tem- 
ple for; appropriate a temple to; inclose in a 
temple. [Bare.] 
The heathen (in many places) templed and adored this 
drunken god. feltham, Resolves, i. 84. 
temple' 2 (tem'pl), . [< ME. temple, < OF. temple, 
F. tempe, dial, temple = Pr. tempia = It. tempia, 
< L. tempora, the temples, pi. of tempus, temple, 
head, face.] 1. The region of the header skull 
behind the eye and forehead, above and mostly 
in front of the ear. This area corresponds to the tem- 
poral fossa above the zygoinatic arch, where the skull is 
very thin and is covered by the temporal muscle. 
King Helenus wav'd high the Thracian blade, 
And smote his temples with an arm so strong 
The helm fell off, and roll'd amid the throng. 
Pope, Iliad, xiii. 729. 
2. In entom., the posterior part of the gena, or 
that immediately beneath the eye. 3. One 
of the bars sometimes added to the ends of 
spectacle-bows to give them a firmer hold on 
the head of the wearer. See spectacle, 5. 4. 
An ornament worn at the side of the head or 
covering the side of the head, mentioned in the 
fifteenth century as apparently sometimes of 
needlework, sometimes set with jewels. Fair- 
holt. 
temple 3 (tem'pl), is. [< F. temple, templet.] An 
attachment to a loom for keeping the cloth 
stretched, while the reed beats the threads into 
place after each throw of the shuttle. One 
form is automatic, releasing the cloth and then 
stretching it after each stroke of the lay. 
templeless (tem'pl-les), a. [< temple 1 + -less.] 
Devoid of a temple. Bulwer, Caxtons, iv. 2. 
templert (tem'pler), re. See templar. 
templet (tem'plet), n. [< F. templet, a stretcher, 
< L. templum, a small timber, a purlin.] 1. A 
pattern, guide, or model used to indicate the 
shape any piece of work is to as- 
sume when finished. It may also be 
used as a tool in modeling plastic material, 
or as a guide placed in a milling-machine, 
shaper-lathe, or other automatic cutting- 
machine. In these applications it may be 
a thin piece of wood or metal, with one or 
all the edges cut in profile to the shape of 
the baluster, cornice, part of a machine, or 
otherobject tobewrought reshape. Tem- 
plets are also used as guides in filing sheet- 
metal to shape, as in making small brass 
gears for clocks, sheets of brass being 
clamped between steel templets, and all the 
parts projecting beyond the edges being 
filed away. Templets are used in found- 
ing as patterns in forming molds in loam. 
2. A strip of metal used in boiler-making, 
pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a 
guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes. 3. 
In building: (a) A short piece of timber or a 
large stone placed in a wall to receive the im- 
post of a girder, beam, etc., and distribute its 
weight. (6) A beam or plate spanning a door- 
or window-space to sustain joists and throw 
their weight on the piers, (c) One of the wedges 
in a building-block. E. H. Knight. 4. Same 
as temple^. 5. In a brilliant, same as bezel, 2. 
See cut under brilliant. 
Also template. 
templify (tem'pli-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. tem- 
lilificfl, ppr. tcmplij'yiiig. To make into a temple . 
[Bare.] 
Templet for a 
Baluster. 
