Definition of Temenos

1. Noun. A sacred circle where one can be himself without fear. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Temenos

1. a sacred precinct [n TEMENE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Temenos

telsontail
telt
telyn
telyushenkoite
temafloxacin
temagamite
temazepam
temblor
temblores
temblors
teme
temed
temefos
temene
temenoi
temenos (current term)
temephos
temerarious
temerariously
temerariousness
temeration
temerities
temeritous
temerity
temerous
temes
temnospondyl
temnospondyls
temoporfin
temozolomide

Literary usage of Temenos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities by Arthur Hamilton Smith, British Museum Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1900)
"82 ; and G. Hirschfeld, in Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mas., Part IV., Section 1. SCULPTURES FROM THE temenos OP DEMETER. For an account of the temenos, ..."

2. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus & Branchidæ by Charles Thomas Newton, Richard Popplewell Pullan (1863)
"387, that in the temenos of Demeter at Cnidus were found a number of marble breasts placed on plinths and surmounted by a handle, and so graduated in scale ..."

3. Travels & Discoveries in the Levant by Charles Thomas Newton, Dominic Ellis Colnaghi (1865)
"... of about 77 feet in the centre of the temenos, and 40 feet at the south-western angle. Nothing was found in this excavation except a large stone spout, ..."

4. The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult and Its Mediterranean Relations; with by Arthur Evans (1901)
"We may, perhaps, suppose that the whole represents a shrine on a peak surrounded by a temenos Furtwangler, Ant. Gemmen. ii. p. 24, and o} H. von Fritze, ..."

5. Recent Discoveries in the Forum, 1898-1904 by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley (1904)
"... Fiore on the high bank next the Temple of Antoninus Faustina were being rapidly demolished. Between the temenos, or sacred enclosure belonging to Vesta, ..."

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