TABERNACLE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Tabernacle

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/tˈæbərnˌækəl/ Listen

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."

See images of 'Tabernacle'

Etymology of 'Tabernacle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Tabernacle" Quotes from Famous Books

... the ha'r offer them folks at Logport? Jest astonished 'em! Jest tuk the best rooms in that new hotel, got a hoss and buggy, dressed ourselves, you and me, fit to kill, and made them Fort people take a back seat in the Lord's Tabernacle, oncet for all. You see what I mean, Jim," she said hastily, as her brother seemed to be succumbing, like his pipe, in apoplectic astonishment, "jest on'y to SHOW 'em what we COULD do if we keerd. Lord! when we done it and spent the money we'd jest snap our fingers and skip back yer ...

— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... is the present position of 'the good'?" asked the Angel thereal, taking wing from Watchester Cathedrome towards the City Tabernacle. ...

— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy

... "His tabernacle will be in it, Bessie. Think of that, my child. An intimate happiness with him. No more sin. All tears wiped away. Bessie, there may be grander worlds among the countless stars, but O earth! fair happy earth, that ...

— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr

... stewart, an uh trustee in de church. It's St. Stephen's and de new brick church was built in 1925, an Mistuh John Wilson's son wrote uh peace uh bout hit in de papuh. De fuss chuch wuz down dyah cross de street fum Jim Foust's "tabernacle." But de fuss cullud chuch in Madison wuz a Union chuch over dyah by de Presbyterian graveyard whah now is de Gyartuh factry. An' Jane ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States • Various

... simplicity, resolved to make fun of him by playing him a trick, and inducing him to believe some prodigy. And happening one day to come upon Calandrino in the church of San Giovanni, where he sate intently regarding the paintings and intaglios of the tabernacle above the altar, which had then but lately been set there, he deemed time and place convenient for the execution of his design; which he accordingly imparted to one of his comrades: whereupon the two men ...

— The Decameron, Vol. II. • Giovanni Boccaccio

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com