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templize

templize verb: to make more temple-like.

Verb

templize (third-person singular simple present templizes, present participle templizing, simple past and past participle templized)

  1. To make more temple-like.
    • Vernacular structures were often “templized” by adding a portico of the correct classical proportions, which were described in detail in architectural copy books.1985, Jane Webb Smith, Marianne Doezema, Georgia's Legacy: History Charted Through the Arts, page 185
    • As such, the maintenance of ritual purity beyond the temple is evidence of the effort to templize other aspects of religious life. Moreover, what is templized or sacrificialized here are those aspects of daily life—particularly prayer and eating—that werer already conceptually related to temple...2009, Jonathan Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, page 201

Examples of templize in a sentence

  • As such, the maintenance of ritual purity beyond the temple is evidence of the effort to templize other aspects of religious life.2009, Jonathan Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, page 201:
  • The question then remains, why would the synagogue lampstand be explicitly “templized” as a memorah, while the Torah chest, and other synagogue appurtenances were not so explicitly templized?2016, Steven Fine, This Holy Place, page 49:

Forms of templize

third-person singular presenttemplizes
present participletemplizing
past participletemplized
pasttemplized
alternative formtemplise

Origin of templize

From temple + -ize.

Questions about templize

What does templize mean?
Templize means to make more temple-like.
How do you use templize in a sentence?
As such, the maintenance of ritual purity beyond the temple is evidence of the effort to templize other aspects of religious life.
What part of speech is templize?
Templize is a verb.
What is the past tense of templize?
The past tense of templize is templized.

Words near templize in the dictionary

  1. Templins
  2. templise
  3. templised
  4. templises
  5. templising
  6. templize
  7. templized
  8. templizes
  9. templizing
  10. templon
  11. templons

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