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Tempil(l, Temple, n.1 Also: tempile, -yll, -el(l. [ME and e.m.E. temmple (Orm), temple (Layamon), tempille (Cursor M.), OE templ, tempel, OF temple, L. templum.]
1. A pagan place of worship; a building where pagan gods and goddesses were viewed as dwelling and were worshipped; an edifice of this type. Also attrib.1375 Barb. iii 222.
Scipio … to defend the cite … has off the templis tane The armys … In name off wictory offerryt thar a1400 Legends of the Saints v 293.
The tempil of Dyane c1400 Troy-bk. ii 878.
Tempile ?1438 Alex. ii 56.
To ane tempill [F. temple] of antiquiteis, To Mars to make sacrifice c1420 Wynt. iv 567.
Cambises … movyd in tyll Egipt … Thare all thare templys he kest downe, And wndyde thare religiowne c1420 Wynt. v 4925.
The tempyll he gert off Appollyne Be halowyd a kyrk off Saynct Martyne 1513 Doug. i v 113.
The dreidful portis … Of Janus tempill [Sm. temple] … With hard irne bandis claspit fast 1513 Doug. ii vi 100.
The goddis al ar fled … thar templis and altaris waist leif thai 1513 Doug. iv viii 104.
In wirschip eik, within hir palyce ȝet, Of hir first husband was a tempil bet Of marbill 1531 Bell. Boece I 140.
Templis and biggingis on the Romane fassion 1533 Bell. Livy I 70/9.
He maid ane counselhous in maner of ane tempill 1533 Bell. Livy I 64/25.
Tempellis 1535 Stewart 8555.
Tha eirdit him in the tempill of Claudius 1596 Dalr. I 135 marg.
Tempilis & places of sacrifice to prophane godisattrib. 1513 Doug. i viii 20.
The tempill dur 1513 Doug. ii vi 43.
Phebus tempill preste, Into his armys, … The haly rellykkis … beryng c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2236.
Quhilk wes all eaitin … be the prestis … onderneth the tempyll flure, Throuch ane passage thay cam
2. The building (or successive buildings) in Jerusalem which was the principal centre of worship for Jews. Also attrib. b. fig. God, the temple or seat of the divine presence in the new Jerusalem of the Revelation of St. John.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiv 45.
Symeone … Thocht he blynd was of gret elde, With hartly eene ȝet he beheld In tempil as thai brocht Jhesum c1460 Wisdom of Solomon (STS) 238.
A man suld tak gud tent quhen he enteris in Godis tempile 1490 Irland Mir. I 130/16.
He come to … Nazarethe, to the virgin and nocht to the tempil a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 162.
In the tempill his moder him present, As wes the law that tyme intill Jowry 1533 Gau 23/4.
The rewlers of the tempil and the cheif prestis c1520-c1535 Nisbet I 12.
Christ … draiff the marchantes out of the tempill a1538 Abell 8a.
This tempill wes of quhit marmor a1538 Abell 12b, 13a.
He gart byg a gayn the tempil of Jerusalem … Eftirwert … he wes slane. Nocht with standing hoip is of his saluatioun for he trowit in a god and did reuerence to him and the tempill c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2455.
Salomone vsit none Ymagrye In his tryumphand tempyll for tyll stande 1562-3 Winȝet I 123/11 (see 3 below). 1562-3 Winȝet II 66/27.
Than the deuil … set Him aboue the prik of the temple 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 117.
The hethin folk, Lord, … hes defylit … The tempill, quhilk was dedicat to thé. … Jerusalem … lay in heipattrib. a1538 Abell 8a.
Fra Adam to the tempill biggin 4169b. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rev. xxi 22.
And I saw na tempile in it [sc. the new Jerusalem] for the Lord God almychtj and the Lamb is the tempile of it 1533 Gau 33/17.
S. Jhone sais in … reuelatione … the almichtine God is thair tempil and lamme
3. A place of worship more generally, a sacred edifice.Sometimes with implied reference to senses 1 or 2 above.c1420 Wynt. v 3976.
The empryowre Teodos … Tyrandryis and mawmentryis, Herrysys and Lollardyis He fordyd, and kest all downe The tempill off thare devotyowne 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 312.
Ȝe prelatis … ȝe send ane sempyll freir for ȝow to preche. It is ȝour craft, I mak it to ȝow kend, Ȝour selfis, in ȝour templis, for to teche c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5531.
Christ sal cum so suddantlye That no man sall the tyme espye As it wes in the tyme of Noye Quhen God did all the warld distroye. Sum on the feild salbe lauborand; Sum, in the templis mariand a1568 Bannatyne MS 79b/59.
Ane gay temple without devyne seruyse … It may weill ryme bot it accordis nocht 1562-3 Winȝet I 123/8.
Gif ȝe allege siklyze [images and figures] to be lesum, bot nocht to be put vp in the temple of God, quhow wnderstand ȝe that … Salomon is gretumlie commendit for the biging of the temple of Jerusalem, quharein [etc.] 1573-1600 Burne Disput. in Cath. Tr. 135/16.
As the Christianis began to big maist magnifict templis a1649 Drummond I 15/204.
This castle did appeare, Whose rising spires of gold so high them reared … (Like to a litle heauen) a sacred temple
b. specif. The place of worship of French Protestants.1586 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 458.
Anent the heids … gevin in … for the pairt of the ministeris of the Fraynche kirk that is to cum heir to mak residence … First thay desyre … ane tempill sufficientlie to be provydet
4. fig. A person's body regarded as being occupied by the divine presence. b. transf. A part of a building so regarded.c1450-2 Howlat 718 (A).
Thair notis … War of Mary the myld … Hale temple of the Trinite c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxxxvi 19.
Tryumphand tempill of the Trinite … salue Maria! a1561 Q. Kennedy Breif Tract. (ed.) 119/28.
Be the resauynge of this sacrament quharin is contenit Christis flesche realy, ve ar made the tempil and duellinge place of the Lord 1598 James VI Basil. Doron 126/1.
Keape cleane youre boddie (quhilke is the temple of the holie spreit)b. 1562-3 Winȝet II 61/30.
The inwart chalmer of the kirk quhilk is the temple of God
5. The religious order of Knights Templars or Knights Hospitalers.1255 Acts I 77/1.
Fratrem Ricardum elemosinarium de ordie milicie templi 14.. Acts I 262/2.
Magister milicie templi et capitalis prior hospitalis de Jerusalem c1560 Hist. Fam. Seton 751.
The tempel felt na los, Quhan David Setoune bare the crosse
b. attrib. and comb. Of or pertaining to the order of Knights Templars or (later) Hospitalers, specif. of land historically in the possession of the order of Knights Templars or later the Hospitalers. See also Tempil(l) land n.Also in place and personal names.c1190 Liber Calchou 129.
Quandam partem terre mee … que vocatur Templeacre 1368–9 Reg. Great S. 101/2.
Omnes terras meas de Tempilhalle 1446 Reg. Episc. Brechin. I 104, 105.
My tempilland of Kethik with the pertinens, and xiij s. and iiij d. of anuel rent ȝerly of the Tempilhil 1464 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XVII 315 (see below).
Tempil Liston —1331 Exchequer Rolls I 405.
Willelmo Templeman 1464 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XVII 315.
I … passit … to the land … liand within the lordship of Tempil Liston, and witht me the temple seriand of Liston 1494 Acts Lords Auditors 204/2.
Actioun … persewit be William Halkhed of Petfurain aganis Henry Wardlaw [etc.] … for the destructioun of certane tempill houssis of the said Williamz 1500 Acts Lords of Council II 457.
[James the Ross] tempil bailye [to William, Lord of St. Johns and Preceptor of Torfichin] 1500 Acts Lords of Council II 458.
That the retoure, saising [etc.] … belongin the said tempil land throw the quhilkis he had enteres thare to be of nane availe … and gif it plesis thir partiis til raise new brevis that the sade tempil chapell be opin and that coursable brevis be gevin til thame and justice til be ministrat 1510 Prestwick B. Rec. 42.
Thai … et his gers of the tempill akyr of Huchione Wallace 1514–15 Protocol Book of James Young (SRS) 446.
That Mr. Alexander Stewart, dean of Dunbar, alleging himself to be lord of St. John of Torphichyn, held a temple court within the temple lands of Torphiching 1519 Fife Sheriff Ct. 163.
Johnne Litstare & his sounis tennentis of Uchtirogall pertening to the tempil hous of Sanct Johnne 1537 Rec. Kinloss Mon. 147.
Ad limitem … in summitate dicti montis nuncupatum wlgariter le Templestanis 1657 Retours I Inq. Spec. Edinburgh (1066).
Two Temple tenements in Edinburgh 1677 Irvine Deeds 13 Nov.
That temple tenement of land commonlie callit Temple Dean and of that temple aiker of land or thairby following the samyn … lyand at the tounheid of the burgh of Irvine 1693 Irvine Deeds (Dispn. Francis & Ballie to Gray).
Me Thomas Francis in Stanemuir herel. proprietar of the temple tenement yeard & aiker of land belonging thairto
c. ? Ellipt. for tempill akir, Tempil(l) land, or the like.1586 Liber Scon App. 231.
To William Fairy … and to the said Gilbert Morisoun all and haill thair tempill and toft and croft thereof