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Hanukka
165 b c to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria 1 Maccabees i
Hexastyle
Having six columns in front said of a portico or temple
VerbarHieron
A consecrated place esp a temple
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Jagannath
to be crushed beneath the wheels of this car It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean and any spilling of blood in the presence of
Pythian
Of or pertaining to Delphi to the temple of Apollo or to the priestess of Apollo who delivered oracles at Delphi
Levite
were of the same tribe and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first and afterward the temple such as the care of the building bringing of wood and other necessaries for the sacrifices the music
Janus
to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome near the Forum which is usually called the Temple of Janus This passage was open in war and closed in peace
monopteral
and without a cella consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof said esp of a temple
Pentastyle
Having five columns in front said of a temple or portico in classical architecture
Pseudo peripteral
Falsely or imperfectly peripteral as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls and an ambulatory only at the ends or
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