a. rare. [f. L. type *tabernācular-is, f. tabernācul-um: see above and -AR1.] Of or pertaining to a tabernacle.

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  1.  Of the style or character of an architectural tabernacle; constructed or decorated with open-work and tracery.

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1678.  Wood, Life, 28 June (O.H.S.), II. 411. An antient carved peice of tabernacular worke.

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1774.  Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840), II. xxiii. 300. Cloisters … fronted with tabernacular or open work.

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  2.  Savoring of the language of a ‘tabernacle’ or conventicle. contemptuous.

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1847.  De Quincey, Protestantism, Wks. 1858, VIII. 89. The word ’shortcomings’ … being horridly tabernacular, and such that no gentleman could allow himself to touch it without gloves.

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1858.  P. J. Bailey, The Age, 171.

        But you condemn all verse of solemn vein
As canting, tabernacular in strain.

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