| 单词 | fence the tables |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fence the tables 9. In the Scottish Presbyterian Churches: to fence the tables: to deliver an exhortation calculated to deter unworthy persons from communicating. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > excommunication > excommunicate [verb (intransitive)] > deliver exhortation calculated to bring about to fence the tables1709 1709 W. Steuart Coll. & Observ. Church Scotl. ii. iv. 140 He fenceth and openeth the Tables. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 406 The objurgation, or fencing the tables, was concluded. 1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) at Bicker-raid A clergyman in fencing the tables at a sacrament, debarred all who had been guilty of [etc.]. 1882 G. W. Sprott Worship Ch. Scot. iii. 109 This address came to be popularly known as the Fencing of the Table..its most prominent feature came to be a series of debarrations beginning thus: ‘I debar from the Table of the Lord’ such and such a class. to fence the tables to fence the tables: see fence v. 9.extracted from tablen.< as lemmas |
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