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English
Etymology
From tabernacle + -er.
Noun
tabernacler (plural tabernaclers)
- (archaic, rare) One who attends or preaches at a tabernacle, that is, a temporary place of Christian worship.
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: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.
1794, “An Account of the Trials at Chelmsford, &c.”, in The Triumph of Religious Liberty over the Spirit of Persecution , published 1795, page 26: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.
1839, Cranmer; by a Member of the Roxburghe Club, volume 1, pages 79, 107:Now here Mrs. Spark was to be censured; first, for preferring a tabernacle to her parish church; […] He took compassion upon the Widow Sparks, in spite of her being a Tabernacler, and drew her out insensibly to join the dance.