单词 | tabernacular |
释义 | tabernacularadj. rare. Of or pertaining to a tabernacle. 1. Of the style or character of an architectural tabernacle; constructed or decorated with open-work and tracery. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > tracery tabernacular1678 traceried1843 1678 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 411 An antient carved peice of tabernacular worke. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. xxiii. 300 Cloisters..fronted with tabernacular or open work. 2. Savouring of the language of a ‘tabernacle’ or conventicle. contemptuous. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [adjective] > relating to jargon > of religious group tabernacular1847 1847 T. De Quincey Protestantism in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 758/1 The word ‘shortcomings’..being horridly tabernacular, and such that no gentleman could allow himself to touch it without gloves. 1858 P. J. Bailey Age 171 But you condemn all verse of solemn vein As canting, tabernacular in strain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1678 |
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