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tablewise, adv.|ˈteɪb(ə)lwaɪz|
[f. table n. + -wise.]
In the manner or form of a table: in various senses. †a. ? In a rectangular shape. Obs.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's 10 The Chirche he made of cumly stoonewerke tabylwyse.
b. In tabular form; tabularly: cf. table n. 10.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. v. 27 It shal not..be amisse in this place once for all, tablewise to lay down the same. 1812G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 463 A Comparative State, tablewise, of our domestic, and foreign trade. 1816Bentham Chrestom. Wks. 1843 VIII. 7/2 The matter of the text being thus treated Table-wise.
c. Said in reference to the holy table when placed in the body of the church or chancel with its length in the direction of that of the church; opp. to altarwise.
1637J. Williams Holy Table 10 Your Communion-Table, when it is not used, should stand in the upper end of the Chancell, not Altar-wise but Table-wise. 1654Evelyn Diary 12 July, To Magdalen College [Oxf.], where we saw the Library and Chapell, which was likewise in pontifical order, the altar onely I think turn'd table-wise. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 71 Their alter stood tablewise for ye Comunion just in ye middle of ye Chancell. 1881W. R. W. Stephens Dioc. Hist. Chichester 194 In some it [the altar] was placed altarwise, in others tablewise.
d. In reference to a precious stone: Cut as a ‘table’ (see table n. 18, table-cut).
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Table, A diamond cut Table⁓wise.
e. In the form of a table as a piece of furniture, i.e. (placed) horizontally on supports.
1902Munsey's Mag. XXVI. 622/2 It was a flat, plain slab of dark gray stone, placed on pillars tablewise. |