tabernaclen.
/ˈtabənak(ə)l/ 1.
a. A temporary dwelling; generally movable, constructed of branches, boards, or canvas; a hut, tent, booth.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun]
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xxiv. 5 How feyr thi tabernaclis, Jacob, and thi tentis, Yrael.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark ix. 4 Maistir..make we here thre tabernaclis, oon to thee, oon to Moyses, and oon to Helye.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 66/2 Dauid toke the heed of Golye and brought it in to Jherussalem and his armes he brought in to his tabernacle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Heb. xi. B By faith was he a straunger in the londe of promes..& dwelt in tabernacles [Wycliffite litel housis].
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 54 Some of these Tabernacles [of the Tartars] may quickely be taken asunder, and set together againe.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) i. i. 44 When his Tents were once pitched, then all the Army..pitched their Tents or Tabernacles about him, in a huge Circuite of ground.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 298 Frescati..derives its name from the arbours or tabernacles built by the inhabitants of Tusculum, when their city was demolished.. a.d. 1191.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 223 The tabernacle was originally a rude hut, formed of intertwined branches.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iii. 109 Some of them..would as soon have sought Kamschatka, as a place wherein to pitch their tabernacle and pursue their fortune.
b. Feast of Tabernacles n. a Jewish festival, commemorating the dwelling of the Israelites in tents during their sojourn in the wilderness, held from the 15th to the 23rd of Tisri (October). It was also called the Feast of Ingathering, and was observed as a thanksgiving for the harvest.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Feast of Tabernacles, Succoth > [noun]
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xxiii. 34 The fiftenthe day of this seuenthe moneth shulen be the cesynge dayes of the tabernacles [a1425 L.V. the feries of tabernaclis].
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xvi. 13 The solempte of the tabernaclis.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Zech. xiv. 16 That thei..halewe the feest of tabernaclis.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) John vii. 2 The Iewes feast of Tabernacles [ Tindale the iewes tabernacle feast] was at hande.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 79 The feast of tabernacles was the yearly remembrance of God's miraculous guidance and support of Israel through the wilderness.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 3/2 More than any of the other Jewish festivals, Tabernacles claims to be a holyday distinctly commemorative of the harvest.
2.
a. spec. in Jewish History. The curtained tent, containing the Ark of the Covenant and other sacred appointments, which served as the portable sanctuary of the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness and afterwards till the building of the Temple. Also called tabernacle of the congregation (or tabernacle of the meeting), tabernacle of testimony, and tabernacle of witness.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > Ark of the Covenant > [noun] > covering for
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Mercy seat1530
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3174 Gold and siluer he hauen vt brogt, Ðe tabernacle dor-wið wurd wrogt.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 236 Aaron and his children þet serueden ine þe tabernacle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. v. 6 And ye Leuites toke the Arke, & broughte it vp with the Tabernacle of witnesse, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiv. 219 The Tabernacle was a moveable Temple.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. vii. 164 The most remarkable vestige of the nomadic state of the nation was the Tabernacle or Tent..the shelter of the Ark.
b. Applied to a portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.In later versions.
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society > faith > artefacts > portable shrines or relics > portable shrine > [noun] > heathen
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Amos v. 26 And ȝe han born tabernaclis to Moloch, ȝour god.
c. Transferred to the Jewish temple, as continuing the sacred functions and associations of the earlier tabernacle.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > Jewish
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1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) Heb. xiii. 10 We han an auter, of which thei that seruen to the tabernacle, han not power to ete.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxv[i]. 2 At Salem is his tabernacle, & his dwellinge in Sion.
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 15 The Levitical and ceremonial service of the tabernacle..which is now abolishd.
3. figurative. In phraseology chiefly of biblical origin: A dwelling-place.
a. spec. The dwelling-place of Jehovah, or of God.Originally with reference to the Jewish tabernacle or temple.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun]
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xiv. 1 Lord wha sall won in þi tabernakile?
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxvi. 9 He hid me in his tabernakill in day of illis.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xxi. 3 Lo! the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he shal dwelle with hem.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 90 O Lord quha sall in heuin dwell with the, In thy tryumphant throne and Tabernakil?
1831 W. S. Landor Guzman & Son 17, in Wks. (1846) II. 610 The brave man's breast Is God's pure tabernacle.
b. gen. A dwelling-place, a dwelling, a place of abode.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun]
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xii. 6 The tabernaclis of reueres abounden.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Dviv For euery good christen man and woman a tabernacle of glory.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 105 They deserue to be receiued into the eternall Tabernacles.
a1832 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 572/1 The portion from the encompassing whole, which hath taken up its tabernacle in these our bodies.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. viii. 93 How undesirable it is to build the tabernacle of our brief lifetime out of permanent materials.
1891 F. Tennyson Niobe in Poems 346 And all The crowned Gods in their high tabernacles Sigh unawares.
c. Applied to the human body regarded as the temporary abode of the soul or of life.
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the world > life > the body > [noun]
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c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) ii. pr. iii. 26 Arthow now comen fyrst A sodeyn gest in to the shadwe or tabernacle of this lyf?
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Pet. i. 14 The puttyng off of my tabernacle is swift.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) 2 Cor. v. 1 We knowe that if the tabernacle of this our earthy howse shalbe destroyed, we haue a building geuen of God..eternal in heauen.
1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 142 Many a gentle mynd Dwels in deformed tabernacle drownd.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 596 True Image of the Father.., enshrin'd In fleshly Tabernacle, and human form. View more context for this quotation
1746–7 J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 118 These earthly tabernacles will be transformed into the likeness of Christ's glorious body.
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand i The spirit was busy in its tabernacle dealing with high thoughts.
4. † a. An ornate canopied structure, as a tomb or shrine; in quot. c1430, an ornate structure in a pageant. Obsolete.† c. A canopy of tabernacle-work over a throne or stall, esp. the abbot's stall in a choir. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > canopy > canopied structure
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 466 Tours þe gode kniȝt..Brut let bringe an erþe..& let vair tabernacle in honur of him rere.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 181 Tombes opon tabernacles tyld opon lofte, Housed in hirnes harde set abouten.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 10 In Cornhille..To do plesaunce to his majesté, A tabernacle surmontyng of beauté Ther was ordeyned.
?a1500 Maundevile & Sultan of Egypt 95 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 115 Than the body they bryng unto that place Wher he salle ly armet in his wede, In a tabernacle or a case, Right preciose.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8813 When this taburnacle atyrit was..Thai closit hit full clanly, all with clene ambur.
b. A canopied niche or recess in a wall or pillar, to contain an image.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > niche > canopied
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c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 100 But many..Babewinnes and pinacles, Imageries and tabernacles, I saw.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 51 An ymage of seynt Wylyam, standyng in a tabernakle, in þe chirche of seynt Margarete of Lenne.
1487–8 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 142 Maistres Agnes Breten did do gilte & paynte the tabernacle of owr lady with in þe queer.
1536 Reg. Riches Cathedral of Sarum in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 194 A Tabernacle of Ivory, standing upon four feet, with two leaves, and an ymage of our Lady in the middle.
1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 237 On either side are tabernacles or niches, containing figures.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > canopy > [noun] > over throne or stall
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a1400–50 Alexander 5645 A tabernacle ouir þe trone tildid vp on loft.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1671 For the souerayn hym selfe was a sete rioll,..Attyret with a tabernacle of Eyntayill fyn.
5. Christian Church. An ornamented receptacle for the pyx containing the consecrated host.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > tabernacle > [noun]
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sacrament house1551
society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > pyx > [noun] > receptacle for
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1487–8 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 131 Rynges and hookes to henge the clothe for the newe tabernacle.
1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 18 Pranked vp with tabernacles and lyghtes, sensynges and massynges.
a1615 Balnagown MS in W. R. Baillie Breve Cron. Earlis of Ross (1850) 17 He brought home [for the kirk] an tabernacle.
1716 in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics of 1715 (1889) 130 A tabernacle of silver belonging to ye Altar.
1853 J. D. H. Dale tr. G. Baldeschi Ceremonial Rom. Rite 301 He..opens the Tabernacle, genuflects, and takes out the ciborium.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 717/1 In most English [R.C.] churches the tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament is placed over the chief altar.
6. A place of worship distinguished in some way from a church.
a. A temporary place of worship; esp. applied to the structures temporarily used during the rebuilding of the churches destroyed by the Fire of London in 1666.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > [noun] > temporary
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1693 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 132 In the Tabernacle neere Golden Square: the Bishop of Lincoln on 2. John. 25.
1695 J. Bramston Autobiogr. May (Camden) 389 She [Lady Dyke] was at morninge or euening prayer in the church or tabernacle daily.
1711 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 6 Apr. 120 87 Allowing the Eighteen Chapells or Tabernacles to be Capable of receiveing as many persons as Eight Churches do.
1739 Act 12 Geo. II c. 7 Preamble The parishioners [of Ealing] were obliged to assemble for Divine worship in a slight Timber Tabernacle.
b. Applied frequently to the meeting-houses or places of worship of Protestant Nonconformists, esp. when not of ecclesiastical architecture.Sometimes part of the title, as Whitefield's Tabernacle in Tottenham Court Road, London, and the Metropolitan Tabernacle built for Mr. Spurgeon; chiefly so used by Baptists and some Methodists. In Scotland, early in the 19th century, commonly applied to the places of worship of the Independents or Congregationalists (‘Tabernacle-people’). Otherwise, the name was mostly applied in contempt.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist
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gospel-shop?1782
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Bethesda1857
Salem1857
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1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man i. 14 I believe, she could spread an horse-laugh thro' the pews of a tabernacle.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 116 A great number of methodist tabernacles.
1805 J. Brown Vindic. Presbyterian Church Govt. ii. 13 (note) The tabernacle-churches in Scotland require their members to stand in singing.
1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 357 They called it [the shed built as a preaching place for Whitefield] a Tabernacle in allusion to the moveable place of worship of the Israelites.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 182 Pewing which would disgrace a tabernacle of the last century.
c1880 R. Allen Guide to Nottingham 33 The next building on the main road of any note is known as The Tabernacle..and is a Baptist Chapel.
c. figurative. Applied to the ‘edifice’ which for the time enshrines the principles of a party.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party principles or line
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1902 H. Campbell-Bannerman Speech at Leicester 19 Feb. I do not know down to this moment whether Lord Rosebery speaks to us from the interior of our political tabernacle or from some vantage-ground outside.
1902 Ld. Rosebery in Times 21 Feb. 6/1 Speaking pontifically within his ‘tabernacle’ last night, he [Sir H. C.-B.] anathematised my declarations on the ‘clean slate’ and Home Rule... I remain, therefore, outside his tabernacle, but not, I think, in solitude.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 26 Feb. 6/3 Dr. Heber Hart..is convinced that the principles of the League can be effectively advocated only by those who remain within the tabernacle of the party, whoever may be the Chief Rabbi for the time being.
7. Nautical. An elevated socket or step for the mast of a river-boat, or a post to which the mast is hinged, that it may be lowered to pass bridges.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > socket in which mast is fitted
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1877 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III.
1886 Field 13 Feb. 209/3 The mizen mast to be stepped in a tabernacle on a false transom in front of the rudder head.
1889 H. M. Doughty Friesland Meres 356 I watched the tabernacle anxiously; the strain must be enormous; we must have shrouds set up.
1892 H. M. Doughty Our Wherry in Wendish Lands 15 Her one mast, very far forward, is as high nearly as her length, and balanced in a tabernacle with a ton and more of lead.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > baker > company of bakers
tabernacle1486
1486 Bk. St. Albans f vj b A Tabernacle of bakers.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) John vii. f. cxxixv Tabernacle feast [see 1b].
C2.
tabernacle-niche n. a niche having a canopy of tabernacle-work over it.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > niche
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1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 286 A central tabernacle-niche, and on each side of it a narrow square-headed window.
tabernacle roof n. a roof which slopes at the ends, as well as the sides, to a central ridge shorter than the side-walls.
tabernacle-spire n. a spire ornamented with many tabernacles or canopied niches.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > tower or steeple > [noun] > spire > types of
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1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 121/2 The Tabernacle-spire also is one of which there is no example in this country.
tabernacle-work n. (a) the ornamental carved work or tracery usual in canopies over niches, stalls, or pulpits, and in the carved screens of churches; (b) architectural work in which tabernacles form the characteristic feature.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > screen > [noun] > ornamental work of
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > canopy > [noun] > ornamental work in
tabernacle-work1774
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > tracery
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > canopy > canopied structure
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1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 2 The tabernacle work in the choir is very neat.
1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 133 The ornamental open work over the stalls, and in general any minute ornamental open work, is called tabernacle work.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
tabernaclev.
1. intransitive. To occupy a tabernacle, tent, or temporary dwelling, or one that can be shifted about; to dwell for a time, to sojourn: usually figurative, in devotional or poetical language, said of the sojourning of Christ on earth or ‘in the flesh’, and of the indwelling of the Spirit of Christ; also of men as spiritual beings dwelling in the ‘fleshly tabernacle’ of the body.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)]
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1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris xiv. sig. L3 The Evangelist Saint John, Joh. i. 14. saith, He tabernacled amongst us.
1667 I. Penington Question to Professors of Christianity 20 Is it the flesh and blood of him, who took, tabernacled and appeared in the Body?
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 91 That of Paul 2 Cor. xii. 9..that the power of Christ might tabernacle or dwel on me.
1847 C. Rossetti Face of Deep (1892) 454 Not with the sparrow building here a house; But with the swallow tabernacling so As still to poise alert to rise and go.
1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. iii. 94 It is..as personal spirits, tabernacling in bodily forms, that we men are capable of religion.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 188 Tabernacling first in a room in Burton Street.
1881 Bible (R.V.) John i. 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt [margin. tabernacled: Gk. ἐσκήνωσεν] among us.
2. transitive. To place in a tabernacle; to enshrine.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > tabernacle > [verb (transitive)] > place in tabernacle
tabernacle1822
1822 H. H. Milman Martyr of Antioch iii. 116 In thee the light, Creation's eldest born, was tabernacled.
1891 Tablet 21 Nov. 825 In any church in this land in which Jesus is tabernacled and has found a home.
1896 Catholic News 25 Apr. 6/6 The real presence of God..tabernacled in yon loving place.
Derivatives
ˈtabernacling n. dwelling in a tabernacle or tent; sojourning; temporary abode.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun]
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a1695 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. IV (1699) V. ii. 246 It is no Note of Distinction between these two Dwellings or Tabernaclings of Christ.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 89 This tabernacling of the unendurable sun with men.
1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xxiii. 16 The feast of tabernacles, because the tabernacling of the people in the wilderness was then commemorated.
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tabernacle
d. Applied disparagingly to buildings (esp. Nonconformist churches) made partly of corrugated iron: tin chapel, tabernacle (cf. tabernacle n. 6b), etc. Also, tin town.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [noun]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > other types of town
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist > made of corrugated iron
tin chapel1884
1884 Lichfield Diocesan Mag. Jan. 11/2 It was decided to build ‘a little bit of a tin tabernacle’.
1886 Marquess of Bute Let. 17 Apr. in D. H. Blair John Patrick 3rd Marquess of Bute (1921) ix. 154 The persistent wish of my Lord of Argyll to have what he calls an ‘opening’ of the tin temple in August.
1897 E. Edwards Journey through S. Afr. viii. 48 It would not be out of place to refer to Kimberley as a ‘tin’ town.
1919 A. T. Bassett S. Barnabas', Oxf. iv. 36 This was before the ‘tin’ church at Cowley S. John existed.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. vi. 242 That's the Station Refreshment Rooms, a tin place, just opposite.
1934 D. Thomas Let. Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 143 We made a tour of the pubs..drinking to the..destruction of the Tin Bethels.
1937 New Statesman 13 Nov. 802/2 The several designs of late-Victorian tin-chapel in the slums of a northern industrial town.
1962 ‘J. le Carré’ Murder of Quality x. 108 That parson man from the tin tabernacle.
1979 ‘P. O'Connor’ Into Strong City ii. xxix. 103 Being born again had become no longer a derisive tin chapel slogan but a phrase to describe what was happening to me.
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