What is the difference between temple and church?
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A building for worship.
(often, capitalized) The Jewish temple of Jerusalem, first built by Solomon.
Something regarded as holding religious presence.
Something of importance; something attended to.
(obsolete) A body.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), , act 1, scene 3, lines 11–14:
Hands held together with forefingers outstretched and touching pad to pad, with the rest of the fingers clasped.
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To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.
(anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
(ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
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Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
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(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
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(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
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A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
* 2007 , Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America ,
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*:Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 36:
*:Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched .
(label) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
Church is a coordinate term of temple.
In transitive terms the difference between temple and church
is that temple is to build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to while church is to educate someone religiously, as in in a church.temple
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) templ, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The temple of Zeus was very large.
- My body is my temple.
- For nature crescent does not grow alone
- In thews and bulks, but as this temple waxes,
- The inward service of the mind and soul
- Grows wide withal.
Synonyms
* house of worshipDerived terms
* templelike * Temple Mount * Temple of Heaven * temple of immensityVerb
(templ)- to temple a god
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) temple, from (etyl) temple, from (etyl) (see "temporal bone" )Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) ; compare templet and template.External links
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Alternative forms
* churche (obsolete)Noun
- There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
- These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
- The Church''' of England separated from the Roman Catholic '''Church in 1534.
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- Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions,
- She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.