Temple vs Fane - What's the difference?
temple | fane |
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.
(obsolete) A weathercock, a weather vane.
* 1801 , John Baillie, An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne ,
A temple or sacred place.
* 1850 , The Madras Journal of Literature and Science , Volume 16,
* 1884 , , Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau ,
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, title= * 1993 [1978], (editor), The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1: Cosmogenesis,
In obsolete terms the difference between temple and fane
is that temple is a body while fane is a weathercock, a weather vane.As nouns the difference between temple and fane
is that temple is a building for worship while fane is a weathercock, a weather vane.As a verb temple
is to build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.As a proper noun Temple
is a given name derived from Latin.temple
English
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
- (Feltham)
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
* *Anagrams
* ----fane
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fane, from (etyl) . More at vane.Noun
(en noun)page 541,
- The ?teeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the pre?ent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, four fanes' mounted on ?pires, on the four corners; the?e being judged too weak for the ' fanes , were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ?teeple altered.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 64,
- Fanes are built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these are Jaina , or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.
page 78,
- The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane , its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
page 458,
- And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombre fanes of India and other Mother lands of cults.