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† ˈhabitacle Obs. exc. Hist.
[a. F. habitacle (12th c. in Littré) ad. L. habitācul-um dwelling-place, f. habitāre to inhabit.]
1. A dwelling-place, habitation.
13..Coer de L. 4149 Thomas..an other stone i-slong To ser Mahouns habitacle. 1382Wyclif Acts xii. 7 Liȝt schoon aȝen in the habytacle. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 225/2 Thenne went cristofer to this ryuer & made there his habitacle for hym. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 14 Haile, Alphais habitakle! a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 167 Our bed..which in this little habitacle was not far from the fire. 1829Southey Epist. in Anniversary 11 Fortune hath set his happy habitacle Among the ancient hills.
fig. and transf.1382Wyclif Eph. ii. 22 Be ȝe bildid to gidere into the habitacle of God, in the Hooli Gost. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xxvii. 96 Bringe oute of þe habitacle of myn herte all maner of derkenes. a1555Bradford Wks. (Parker Soc.) 356 These our corruptible habitacles, wherein we abide the Lord's leisure. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. i. 36 The Bloud-vessels (those genuine Habitacles of noxious Vapours).
2. A canopied niche in the wall of a building.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 104 And eke in each of the pinnacles Weren sundry habitacles. 1875Parker Gloss. Archit., Habitacle,..applied also to a niche for a statue. Ibid. s.v. Tabernacle, Tabernacles were also called Maisons, Habitacles, Hovels, and Housings in ancient contracts. |