Meaning of tabernacler | Babel Free

Definitions

One who attends or preaches at a tabernacle, that is, a temporary place of Christian worship.

archaic, rare

Examples

“Art thou become a Tabernacler too? / When sure thou dost not mean to preach and pray, / Unless it be the clean contrary way; / This holy time I little thought thy sin / Deserv’d a tub to do its penance in.”

“We see, that these tabernaclers were assembled in a baking-house. A house where they are baking puddings and bread all the week, was on the Sunday morning turned into a conventicle.”

“Now here Mrs. Spark was to be censured; first, for preferring a tabernacle to her parish church; […] He took compassion upon the Widow Sparks, in spite of her being a Tabernacler, and drew her out insensibly to join the dance.”

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