templise

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A form of templize — To make more temple-like.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbtemplise (third-person singular simple present templises, present participle templising, simple past and past participle templised)

present singular third person templises · participle present templising · participle past templised · past templised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of templize.

    The rabbins conceive that during the abode thereof at Shiloh , the Tabernacle began to templise, getting walls ( though without a roof ) round about it, chiefly because about that time it is thrice termed a temple ( 1 Sam . i . 9 ; 2 Sam . xxii 7; Psalm xviii. 3);

    1869, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, page 500
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    To fulfil its objectives this organization creates a feeling of insecurity and aggressiveness among the majority community by raising alarm (1) at the supposed growth rate of Muslim population (2) at the exaggerated large scale infiltration from Pakistan and Bangladesh (3) imaginary ill-treatment of women in the Muslim society (4) Stereotyped notion of the incidence of polygyny among the Muslims (5) Muslim anxiety for cultural self-preservation by retaining their personal laws (6) demanding the right to templise mosque on ground or mythological belief etc.

    1993, M. K. A. Siddiqui, Hindu-Muslim relations, page 71
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