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communion table
[communion 7.]
The table used in celebrating the Communion of the Lord's Supper.
In the Church of England, the application of the terms ‘communion-table’ and ‘altar’ respectively to the ‘holy table’ of the Prayer-book, depends more or less on the views held as to the nature of the Communion Office. See historical data under altar 2 b.
1566in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 43 A carpitt..for our communion table. 1626Donne Serm. iv. 32 Consider then that to come to the Communion table is to take Orders: Every man should come to that altar as holy as the Priest for there he is a Priest. 1634Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 82 It was not to be accounted an altar, but the communion-table. 1641,1742[see altar 2 b]. 1711Addison Spect. No. 112 ⁋2 He has likewise..railed in the Communion-Table at his own Expence. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. II. 61 Bishop Jewel says, that in St. Basil's days, Ann. 380, the Communion Table was of boards, and so placed that men might stand round it. 1854Ecclesiologist XV. 341 He..talks of the ‘communion-table’ as if this were a correct or authorized term. 1870F. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 23 There is a space left..for a communion table. |