Definition of Table tilting

1. Noun. Manipulation of a table during a seance; attributed to spirits.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Table Tilting

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
table tapping
table tennis
table tilting (current term)
table tipping
table turning
table wine
tableau
tableau vivant
tableaus
tableaux
tablebase
tablebases
tablebook
tablebooks
tablecloth
tableclothed
tablecloths

Literary usage of Table tilting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"And here, I think, we have attained to a conception of the mysterious and much-derided phenomenon of "table-tilting" which enables us to correlate it with ..."

2. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"But beyond the simple movements—or table-turning—and the intelligible responses—or table-tilting—both of which are at least ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Then the Table-tilting came up. It was found that the table would tilt in ... The table-tilting first developed itself in Bath, under the guidance of some ..."

4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"And here, I think, we have attained to a conception of the mysterious and much-derided phenomenon of "table-tilting" which enables us to correlate it with ..."

5. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"But beyond the simple movements—or table-turning—and the intelligible responses—or table-tilting—both of which are at least ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Then the Table-tilting came up. It was found that the table would tilt in ... The table-tilting first developed itself in Bath, under the guidance of some ..."

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