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• tem'e-nos, n. a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a precinct. [Gr.,--temnein, to cut off.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

• (Greek ant.; pl. -ne). Sacred enclosure, temple precinct. [Greek]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry