TABERNACLE

noun a tryptich for sacred imagery.

2. tabernacle ·noun a seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.

3. tabernacle ·vi to dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.

4. tabernacle ·noun a slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.

5. tabernacle ·noun hence, the jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.

6. tabernacle ·noun figuratively: the human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.

7. tabernacle ·noun a niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.

8. tabernacle ·noun any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.

9. tabernacle ·noun a boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, ·etc.

10. tabernacle ·noun the ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.

11. tabernacle ·noun hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.

12. tabernacle ·noun a portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.