[f. TEMPLE sb.1]
1. trans. To enclose in or as in a temple, to enshrine; to honor with a temple or temples, to build a temple to or for. Also fig.
1593. Southwell, St. Peter’s Compl., 27. Christ, as my God, was templed in my thought.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] lxxxiv. 242. The Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken god.
1838. S. Bellamy, Betrayal, 57. Templed, and taught, and rited as thou art.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xxxi. (1852), 514. Immured … In … her holy home, With many a lovely handmaiden around In starry palace templed.
1850. R. W. Evans, Common Prayer, 9, in Parochial Sketches, 199.
| So may our sacrifice of prayer this morn | |
| Pierce with its heavenly light each templed heart, | |
| And from the depths of buried memory | |
| Bid the past days of shining mercies start. |
2. To make or fashion into a temple.
1839–49. [implied in TEMPLED ppl. a. 2].
† 3. intr. To reside or dwell as in a temple. Obs.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 62. Bless’d Jesu! deign to Temple in my Mind. Ibid., Sion, ibid. IV. 412. O Jesu,… I feel thee templing in my Heart.
Hence Templing vbl. sb.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks. (1672), 641. The Deifying and invocating of Saints and Angels,… the adoring and templing of Reliques.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 105. In the Demon-worship they had many other rites, as worshipping of Columnes, Templing of Reliques.
