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Definition of Table talk
1. Noun. Conversation during a meal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Table Talk
Literary usage of Table talk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1903)
"No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then, howsoe'er thou speak'st, 'mong
other things I shall digest it. Jessica. Well, I'll set you forth. ..."
2. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"TABLE-TALK. TABLE-TALK Is so natural to man, that the mouth is the organ both of
eating and speaking. The tongue is set flowing by the bottle. ..."
3. The Oxford Reformers by Frederic Seebohm (1896)
"It chanced that, after the delivery of a Latin sermon, Table-talk the ... At first
the tide of table-talk ebbed and flowed upon trivial subjects. ..."
4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1877)
"table talk. By A. Bronson Alcott. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1877. ... There is
however this great difference between the table-talk of Mr. Alcott and the ..."
5. The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More by Frederic Seebohm (1869)
"It chanced that, after the delivery of a Latin sermon, Table-talk the ... At first
the tide of table-talk ebbed and flowed upon trivial subjects. ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"In his Table-Talk (1689; reprint, Oxford, 1892) he took the position that the
State was sovereign, but that Church and State should each manage its own ..."
7. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1903)
"No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then, howsoe'er thou speak'st, 'mong
other things I shall digest it. Jessica. Well, I'll set you forth. ..."
8. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"TABLE-TALK. TABLE-TALK Is so natural to man, that the mouth is the organ both of
eating and speaking. The tongue is set flowing by the bottle. ..."
9. The Oxford Reformers by Frederic Seebohm (1896)
"It chanced that, after the delivery of a Latin sermon, Table-talk the ... At first
the tide of table-talk ebbed and flowed upon trivial subjects. ..."
10. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1877)
"table talk. By A. Bronson Alcott. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1877. ... There is
however this great difference between the table-talk of Mr. Alcott and the ..."
11. The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More by Frederic Seebohm (1869)
"It chanced that, after the delivery of a Latin sermon, Table-talk the ... At first
the tide of table-talk ebbed and flowed upon trivial subjects. ..."
12. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"In his Table-Talk (1689; reprint, Oxford, 1892) he took the position that the
State was sovereign, but that Church and State should each manage its own ..."