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noun

Tabernacle n.

1.

A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent. "Dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob." "Orange trees planted in the ground, and secured in winter with a wooden tabernacle and stoves."

2.

(Jewish Antiq.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.

3.

Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.

4.

Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul. "Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle."

5.

Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept. Specifically:

(a)

The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.

(b)

A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.

(c)

Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.

(d)

A tryptich for sacred imagery.

(e)

A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.

6.

(Naut.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.

Feast of Tabernacles (Jewish Antiq.), one of the three principal festivals of the Jews, lasting seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths formed of the boughs of trees, in commemoration of the habitation of their ancestors in similar dwellings during their pilgrimage in the wilderness.

Tabernacle work, rich canopy work like that over the head of niches, used over seats or stalls, or over sepulchral monuments.

verb

Tabernacle v. i. (past & past part. tabernacled; pres. part. tabernacling) To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed. "He assumed our nature, and tabernacled among us in the flesh."

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Etymology of 'Tabernacle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tabernacle" Quotes from Famous Books

... opinion to himself there is no reason why the world in general should ever learn the truth. Certainly it shall be my life work to prevent it; and maybe when in the years to come I am passing the plate in some far suburban tabernacle of worship, all will be forgotten. Helen, may I trouble you to ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... towards the chapel of the Sacrament. With that dignity of which no internal storm could rob his refined bearing and the lofty beauty of his face, he sank upon his knees at the desk which stands in the centre of the chapel, between the four columns, under the lamp, raising his eyes to the tabernacle. ...

— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro

... to fail. My eyes do ache at times, my dear, I have thought of all that. You will be my adopted child; not that I can leave you anything in my will, but I would provide a home for you while I am left in this tabernacle of the flesh. What do ...

— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade

... uncomfortable that last Christmas, as a surprise for the children, we divided the room into two halves with a curtain between. Their half is made pretty with pictures and texts, painted in blue on pale brown wood. The children call this part of the room the Tabernacle. The part beyond the curtain is the ...

— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael

... Locust-wood is very durable, and, as it will bear exposure to all kinds of weather, it is much used in shipbuilding and as posts for gates. It is thought that the shittah and shittim wood of the Bible, of which Moses made the greater part of the tables, altars and planks of the tabernacle, was the same as the black acacia found in the deserts of Arabia and about Mount Sinai and the mountains which border on the Red Sea, and is so hard and solid ...

— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church

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