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Definition of Temples
1. temple [n] - See also: temple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Temples
Literary usage of Temples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"These long-deserted temples have suffered from dampness and neglect, and the
paintings and frescos are not what they were hundreds of years ago. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The principal temples and important public buildings occupied sites round it,
and up to the time of Julius Caesar there were shops on both sides: it was ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"The ground-plans which Mr. Fergueson gives of these monasteries and temples might
really be taken for those of Christian buildings. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The proportion between the iront and the sides of the Koman temples was tar more
... In some Roman temples windows were introduced, as, eg, in the Temple of ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"... and the solitary temples were abandoned to ruin and contempt.23 Rome submitted
to the yoke of the Gospel ; and the vanquished provinces had not yet lost ..."
6. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... temples feem to have been built before that order was ufed in Greece, ...
walked in the temples; though it is very probable, that many of their pillars, ..."
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