Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the tabernacle; hence, of or pertaining to other structures so named; like or characteristic of a tabernacle.
- Of the style or nature of an architectural tabernacle; traceried or richly ornamented with decorative sculpture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
- adjective Formed in latticework; latticed.
- adjective Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to a
tabernacle . - adjective Of the style or character of an architectural tabernacle; formed in
latticework ;latticed . - adjective rare Of or pertaining to
huts ortents ;common ;low .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Something "tabernacular" may be found in Dumas's famous piece of "Don
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar.
What’s Your Problem? 2009
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We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar.
What’s Your Problem? 2009
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We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar.
What’s Your Problem? 2009
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The world changed about them with their changing mood, until presently it had become, as it were, a tabernacular beauty about their meetings, and the stars were no more than flowers of light beneath the feet of their love, and the dawn and sunset the coloured hangings by the way.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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