3. Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship. Acts xv. 16.
4. Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle.
2 Pet. i. 14. 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. Oxf. Gloss.
Tabernacle
(Tab"er*na*cle), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabernacled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tabernacling ] To
dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
He assumed our nature, and tabernacled among us in the flesh.
Dr. J. Scott. Tabernacular
(Tab`er*nac"u*lar) a.
1. Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
2. Formed in latticework; latticed. T. Warton.
3. Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. "Horribly tabernacular." De Quincey.
Tabes
(||Ta"bes) n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied
with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.
||Tabes dorsalis (dôr*sa"lis) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; — sometimes called simply tabes.
— ||Tabes mesenterica [NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic
inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.
Tabescent
(Ta*bes"cent) a. [L. tabescens wasting, p. pr. of tabescere.] Withering, or wasting away.
Tabetic
(Ta*bet"ic) a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.
— n. One affected with tabes.
