Meanings
plural habitacles
- obsoleteA dwelling or habitation.
1 more example
And I believe assuredly that this congregation, according as it is called in scripture, so it is in very deed the city of heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of all the elect people of God, the only dove, and the only beloved of God, in perfect and everlasting charity, the holy catholic church, the temple or habitacle of God, the pure and undefiled espouse of Christ, the very mystical body of Christ.
1537, “The Institution of a Christian Man”, in Formularies of faith put forth by authority during the reign of Henry VIII, published 1825, page 52
Origin
- Latinhabitāculum“dwelling place”
- Middle Frenchhabitacle
- Middle Englishhabitacle
- Englishhabitacle
From Middle English habitacle, from Middle French habitacle, from Latin habitāculum (“dwelling place”). See binnacle, habit (verb), inhabit.
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Catalan habitacle
- habitaclea dwelling or habitation
Spanish habitáculo
- habitáculoa dwelling or habitation
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