Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers Section V. Religious Affections 5. Religious Institutions 1000. Temple.
NOUN: TEMPLE, place of worship; house of God, house of prayer; cathedral, minster, church, kirk [Scot. & dial. Eng. ], chapel, meeting-house, bethel, ebenezer [Eng. ], conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory.Moham. ]; dewal, kan-pati [both Hindu ], girja [Hind., Christian ]; pagoda, pagod [archaic ], kiack [Buddhist ]; Chinese temple, joss house [colloq. ]; pantheon.SHRINE, dagoba [India ]; tope, stupa [Buddhist ], Marabout [Moham. ].NTERIOR ] altar, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum [L. ], sacristy; sacrarium; communion -, holy -, Lord’s- table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina; stoup; holy-water stoup, holy-water basin; ambry, aumbry [archaic ]; sedile; reredos; rood screen, rood beam, chapel screen, jube; rood loft.archaic ], nave, triforium, blindstory, aisle, transept, crypt, porch, cloisters; churchyard, golgotha; calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew, seat, seating; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk; confessional; prothesis, table (or altar) of prothesis, chapel of prothesis [Eastern Ch. ]; credence, baldachin or baldaquin; belfry; vestry, chapter house; presbytery; diaconicon or diaconicum; mourners’ bench, mourners’ seat; anxious bench, anxious seat, penitent form.MONASTERY, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.sanctum sanctorum [L. ], sacristy; sacrarium; communion -, holy -, Lord’s- table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina; stoup; holy-water stoup, holy-water basin; ambry, aumbry [archaic ]; sedile; reredos; rood screen, rood beam, chapel screen, jube; rood loft.archaic ], nave, triforium, blindstory, aisle, transept, crypt, porch, cloisters; churchyard, golgotha; calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew, seat, seating; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk; confessional; prothesis, table (or altar) of prothesis, chapel of prothesis [Eastern Ch. ]; credence, baldachin or baldaquin; belfry; vestry, chapter house; presbytery; diaconicon or diaconicum; mourners’ bench, mourners’ seat; anxious bench, anxious seat, penitent form.MONASTERY, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.PARSONAGE, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, clergy house; glebe; Vatican; bishop’s palace; Lambeth. ADJECTIVE: CHURCHLY, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, monachal, conventual; cruciform. QUOTATIONS: Ne vile fano.
There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.—Tempest
The hand that rounded Peter’s dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;—The conscious stone to beauty grew.—Emerson
Whilst love and terror laid the tiles.—Emerson
