tabbycat (tabikat)

[So called as having fur thought to be marked like tabby; But how soon doth a tabe and consumption take it down! Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 434. Tabebuia (tab-e-bū ́ia), n. [NL. (Gomez, 1803), from Braz. name.] A genus of gamo the Jewish tabernacle, dim. of taberna, a hut, shed, booth; from the same root as tabula, a table, tablet: see tavern, table.] 1. A tent; a pavilion; a booth; a slightly constructed habitation or shelter, either fixed or movable; hence, a habitation in general, especially one regarded as temporary; a place of sojourn; a transient abode. The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. Prov. xiv. 11. Let us make here three tabernacles , one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. Mat. xvii. 4. The body is but the tabernacle of the mind. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 2. In Biblical phraseology, the human frame as the temporary abode of the soul, or of man as a spiritual immortal being. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle , to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle , even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. 2 Pet. i. 13, 14. tabernacle 3. In Jewish hist., a tent constructed to serve as the portable sanctuary of the nation before its final settlement in Palestine. This "tabernacle of the congregation" is fully described in Ex. xxv.-xxvii. and xxxvi.-xxxviii. It comprised, besides the tent, an inclosure or yard, in which were the altar of burnt-offerings and the laver. The tabernacle proper was a tent divided into two chambers by a veil - the inner chamber, or holy of holies, containing the ark of the covenant and the mercy-seat, and the outer chamber the altar of incense, the table of showbread, and the golden candlestick. The tabernacle was of a rectangular figure 45 feet by 15, and 15 feet in height. The court or yard was 150 feet in length by 75 feet, and surrounded by screens 7 feet high. The people pitched round the tabernacle by tribes in a fixed order during their wanderings, and the pillar of cloud and of fire, denoting Jehovah's presence, rested upon it or was lifted from it according as they were to remain stationary or were to go forward. After the arrival in the promised land it was set up in various places, especially at Shiloh, but gradually lost its exclusive character as the center of national worship before the building of Solomon's temple, in which its contents were eventually placed. And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle , and put the covering of the tent above upon it. Ex. xl. 19. And they brought up the ark [to the temple built by Solomon], and the tabernacle of the congregation [tent of meeting, R. V.], and all the holy ve els that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. 2 Chron. v. 5. Hence-4. A place or house of worship; especially, in modern use, an edifice for public worship designed for a large audience: often now the distinctive name a umed for such an edi fice. The shed in Moor fields which White field used as a temporary chapel was called "The Tabernacle "; and, in scornful dialect of certain Church-of-England men, Methodist and such-like places of worship have, since then, been known as tabernacles. F. Hall , False Philol., p. 24, note. 5. A receptacle for the reserved eucharist; especially, a constructional receptacle for this purpose, containing the pyx. The tabernacle, as now commonly seen in Roman Catholic churches, is a rece with a door, placed over and behind the high altar or one of the side altars, usually having over it a cro or crucifix with a design in relief, the whole surmounted by a canopy. In earlier times a movable ark, or usually a suspended dove (columba) or a tower, held the eucharist containing In England the general medieval custom was to place the sacrament in an ambry on one side of the sanctuary or in the sacristry. The tabernacle is a later development of the ark or ambry as a permanent construction over the high altar and surmounted by a canopy or ciborium, often in the spire-like shape de veloped from the tower; hence tabernacle is often given especially to this canopy or to canopies of similar appearance. 6. In medieval arch., a canopied stall, niche, or pinnacle; a cabinet or shrine ornamented with IMG:content-2738.jpg:[graphic][merged small] Babeuries and pinacles, Imageries, and tabernacles , I saw. Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1190. 7. Naut., an elevated socket for a river-boat's mast, or a projecting post to which a mast may be hinged when fitted for lowering to pa beneath bridges. [Eng.] - Feast of Tabernacles, among the Jews, an annual festival celebrated in the autumn (on the fifteenth day of Tisri) in commemora tion of the dwelling of their people in tents during the journey in the wilderne , and as a feast of thanksgiving for the harvest and vintage. Among the ancient Jews it tabernacle lasted eight days, during which all the people gathered at Jerusalem and dwelt in booths. (See Lev. xxiii. 34-36; Num. xxix. 12-39.) Among the modern Jews the feast has been prolonged one day. tabernacle (tab'er-na-kl), v. i.; pret. and pp. tabernacled, ppr. tabernacling. [ He a umed our nature, and tabernacled among us in the flesh. Scott , Works (ed. 1718), II. 467. ( Latham . ) He [Jesus Christ] tabernacled on earth as the true she Schaff , Hist. Christ. Church, I. § 72. kin ah.