tabernacle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabernāculum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”). By surface analysis, taberna + -cle.
Inflected forms:
form: tabernacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tabernacles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tabernacling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tabernacled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tabernacled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
pos: noun
examples: The tabernacles of robbers proſper, and they that prouoke God are ſecure, into whoſe hand God bringeth abundantly.
gloss: The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
pos: noun
examples: […]ſo Moſes finiſhed the worke. Then a cloud couered the Tent of the Congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. And Moſes was not able to enter into the Tent of the Congregation, becauſe the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken vp from ouer the Tabernacle, the children of Iſrael went onward in all their iourneys: But if the cloud were not taken vp, then they iourneyed not, till the day that it was taken vp. For the cloud of the Lord was vpon the Tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the ſight of all the houſe of Iſrael, throughout all their iourneys.
gloss: The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
pos: noun
gloss: A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
pos: noun
gloss: A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.
pos: noun
examples: The tabernacle is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.
gloss: A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
pos: noun
examples: It was over these innocent necessary precautions that the local committees always showed their meanness. They liked giving over only one contribution to the evangelist, but they wanted nothing said about it till they themselves had been taken care of--till the rent of the hall or the cost of building a tabernacle, the heat, the lights, the advertising, and other expenses had been paid.
gloss: Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
pos: noun
gloss: To dwell; to abide for a time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To instill or reside within, as a quality or virtue,
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: What mortal man cannot determine, that is determined by the Olympian father through his child, in whom are tabernacled loveliness, augustness, strength, and graciousness[…]
Derived words: Bloggernacle
tabernacler
tabernacle work
tabernacular
tin tabernacle
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