subs. (religious).—See quot.
1872. F. HALL, Recent Exemplifications of False Philology, 24, Note. The shed in Moorfields, which Whitefield used as a temporary chapel, was called ‘The Tabernacle’; and, in the scornful dialect of certain Church-of-Englandmen, Methodist and such-like places of worship have, since then, been known as TABERNACLES.
See TIN, TABERNACLE and TAB.
