among us, denote two inns of court in London, thus called, because anciently the dwelling-house of the knight's templars. At the suppression of that order, they were purchased by the preachers of the common law, and converted into hospita or inns. They are called the inner and middle temple, in relation to Essex-houle; which was also a part of the house of the templars, and called the outer temple, because situated without Temple-Bar. In the middle temple, during the time of the templars, the king's treasure was kept; as was also that of the kings of France in the house of the templars at Paris. The chief officer was the master of the temple, who was summoned to parliament in 47 Hen. III. and from him the chief minister of the temple-church is still called master of the temple.

in Anatomy, a double part of the head, reaching from the forehead and eyes to the two ears. The temples are chiefly formed of two bones called os temporis. These parts, according to physicians, were called temporu, from their showing the age or time of a man by the colour of the hair, which turns white in this part before any other; which Homer seems to have been aware of, by his calling men policrotaphi, q. d. "grey-templ'd."