Definition of Table talk

1. Noun. Conversation during a meal.

Generic synonyms: Conversation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Table Talk

table manners
table mat
table mountain
table mountains
table mustard
table napkin
table of contents
table rapping
table salt
table saw
table saws
table service
table soccer
table stakes
table talk (current term)
table tapping
table tennis
table tilting
table tipping
table turning
table wine
tableau
tableau vivant
tableaus
tableaux
tablebase
tablebases
tablebook
tablebooks

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 ..."

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