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单词 table gesture
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table gesture
table gesture n. [compare gesture n. 2] rare after 17th cent. a posture suitable for participation in a meal, esp. that of sitting (as opposed to kneeling).Chiefly in discussions of the correct posture for receiving Communion.
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1611 T. Tuke in tr. St. Vincent of Lérins Disc. conc. True, Anc. & Catholicke Faith To Rdr. sig. A9 Christ sate or lay at his last Supper:..it is not only possible or probable, but certaine that he vsed a table gesture at that his last Supper.
a1663 R. Sanderson Ad Clerum (1670) 25 They using the liberty of that Power had appointed sitting or standing rather than kneeling, as judging either of them a more proper Table gesture than it.
1669 R. Baxter Let. 29 Apr. in N. H. Keeble & G. F. Nuttall Cal. Corr. R. Baxter (1991) II. 73 I never scrupled kneeling, though if I have liberty I like a table gesture better.
1730 C. Lamotte Ess. Poetry & Painting 83 The Posture or table Gesture in The Picture of the Last Supper.
1936 E. Underhill Worship xiii. 289 This is the so-called Table Gesture: now generally and unfortunately abandoned in favour of a distribution of the elements to communicants seated in their pews.
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