What is "middle temple"

Temple \Tem"ple\, n. [AS. tempel, from L. templum a space marked out, sanctuary, temple; cf. Gr. ? a piece of land marked off, land dedicated to a god: cf. F. t['e]mple, from the Latin. Cf. Contemplate.]

1. A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India. ``The temple of mighty Mars.''
   --Chaucer.

2. (Jewish Antiq.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.

   Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
   --John x. 2

3. 3. Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.

   Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?
   --Buckminster.

4. Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides. ``The temple of his body.''
   --John ii. 21.

   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?
   --1 Cor. iii. 16.

   The groves were God's first temples.
   --Bryant.

5. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.

6. A local organization of Odd Fellows.

   Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, two buildings, or ranges of buildings, occupied by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. It is located in the wider Temple area of London, near the Royal Courts of Justice, and within the City of London.