Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral PowersSection V. Religious Affections
5. Religious Institutions
1000. Temple.
synagogue, tabernacle; mosque, masjid [Moham.]; dewal, kan-pati [both Hindu], girja [Hind., Christian]; pagoda, pagod [archaic], kiack [Buddhist]; Chinese temple, joss house [colloq.]; pantheon.
SHRINE, dagoba [India]; tope, stupa [Buddhist], Marabout [Moham.].
[INTERIOR] altar, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum [L.], sacristy; sacrarium; communion -, holy -, Lord’s- table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina; stoup; holy-water stoup, holy-water basin; ambry, aumbry [archaic]; sedile; reredos; rood screen, rood beam, chapel screen, jube; rood loft.
chancel, apse, choir, quire [archaic], nave, triforium, blindstory, aisle, transept, crypt, porch, cloisters; churchyard, golgotha; calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew, seat, seating; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk; confessional; prothesis, table (or altar) of prothesis, chapel of prothesis [Eastern Ch.]; credence, baldachin or baldaquin; belfry; vestry, chapter house; presbytery; diaconicon or diaconicum; mourners’ bench, mourners’ seat; anxious bench, anxious seat, penitent form.
MONASTERY, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.
s, sanctum sanctorum [L.], sacristy; sacrarium; communion -, holy -, Lord’s- table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina; stoup; holy-water stoup, holy-water basin; ambry, aumbry [archaic]; sedile; reredos; rood screen, rood beam, chapel screen, jube; rood loft.
chancel, apse, choir, quire [archaic], nave, triforium, blindstory, aisle, transept, crypt, porch, cloisters; churchyard, golgotha; calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew, seat, seating; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk; confessional; prothesis, table (or altar) of prothesis, chapel of prothesis [Eastern Ch.]; credence, baldachin or baldaquin; belfry; vestry, chapter house; presbytery; diaconicon or diaconicum; mourners’ bench, mourners’ seat; anxious bench, anxious seat, penitent form.
MONASTERY, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister.
PARSONAGE, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, clergy house; glebe; Vatican; bishop’s palace; Lambeth.
- Ne vile fano.
- There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.—Tempest
- The hand that rounded Peter’s dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew;—The conscious stone to beauty grew.—Emerson
- Whilst love and terror laid the tiles.—Emerson