tabernacler
tabernacler noun: one who attends or preaches at a tabernacle, that is, a temporary place of Christian worship.
Noun
tabernacler (plural tabernaclers)
- One who attends or preaches at a tabernacle, that is, a temporary place of Christian worship.
- 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.1684, Aphra Behn, “A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation”, in Poems Upon Several Occasions: With a Voyage to the Island of Love, pages 80–81
- 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.1794, “An Account of the Trials at Chelmsford, &c.”, in The Triumph of Religious Liberty over the Spirit of Persecution […], published 1795, page 26
Forms of tabernacler
| plural | tabernaclers |
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Origin of tabernacler
From tabernacle + -er.
Questions about tabernacler
- What does tabernacler mean?
- Tabernacler means one who attends or preaches at a tabernacle, that is, a temporary place of Christian worship.
- What part of speech is tabernacler?
- Tabernacler is a noun.
- What is the plural of tabernacler?
- The plural of tabernacler is tabernaclers.
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