单词 | tablewise |
释义 | tablewiseadv.ΚΠ c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 10 The Chirche he made of cumly stoonewerke tabylwyse. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [adverb] > specific cut tablewise1598 diamond-cut1691 brilliantwise1845 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. lxxxix. 137/2 A Rubie..squared table wise, as it should bee. 1683 J. S. Present State Eng.: Pts. III & IV iv. 180 A Ruby square table-wise, perfect, and of high Colour of 16.18.20. or 24. Carots in Colour, weighing a Fanan is worth sometimes in the India's, 100. Ducats. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Table A Diamond cut Table-wise is used in opposition to a Diamond cut Facetwise. 1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. VI. at Table A diamond cut table-wise, is used in opposition to a rose-diamond. 3. In the form of a list or table; tabularly. Cf. table n. 14. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [adverb] > in tabular form tablewise1611 tabularly1862 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [adverb] > tabular form tablewise1611 tabularly1862 schematically1881 tabulatory1900 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. v. v. 170/2 It shal not..be amisse in this place once for all, tablewise to lay down the same [names]. 1665 J. Gadbury London's Deliv. Predicted iii. 12 First then it is meetly requisite, that I exhibit briefly, Table-wise, the true increase and decrease of the Pestilence, in those four years. 1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland 463 A Comparative State, tablewise, of our domestic, and foreign trade. 1816 J. Bentham Chrestomathia (new ed.) Second Pref. p. xx The matter of the text being thus treated Table-wise. 1904 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 1st iii. i. 101 Each regiment's daily pace and bivouac Writ tablewise for ready reference. 2005 A. Chmura & J. M. Heumann Logical Data Modeling x. 158 We create an interesting entity..that's going to look like this, tablewise. 4. Anglican Church. With reference to the position of the altar or holy table in a church: with its longest axis oriented from liturgical east to west, in line with the longest axis of the nave. Opposed to altarwise. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > altar > [adverb] altar-wise1560 tablewise1636 altar-ways1638 1636 P. Heylyn Coale from Altar ii. 44 It may bee possible that neither Christ our Savours institution will of necessitie infer the use of Tables, (Tables, I meane, placed Table-wise, towards the East great Window, as before was said). 1637 Abp. J. 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. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 109 To Magdalen Coll: where we saw the Library & Chapell, which was likewise in pontifical order, the Altar onely I think turn'd Table-wise. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 71 Their alter stood tablewise for ye Comunion just in ye middle of ye Chancell. 1845 Times 1 Feb. 7/6 The proper place for the table when the communion was administered was in the body of the church before the chancel door; and afterwards in the chancel, but placed tablewise. 1881 W. R. W. Stephens Dioc. Hist. Chichester 194 In some it [sc. the altar] was placed altarwise, in others tablewise. 1930 J. R. Tanner Constit. Documents Reign James I 49 The altar controversy—whether the altar should stand ‘tablewise’,..or ‘altarwise’. 2000 S. Lehmberg & G. Aylmer in G. Aylmer & J. Tiller Hereford Cathedral iv. 90 Edward VI's privy council issued a demand that stone altars be..replaced by ‘honest wooden tables’ orientated tablewise east and west, not north and south. 5. Archaeology. Horizontally on supports. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [adverb] tablewise1830 1830 Cambrian Q. Mag. 2 23 This altar, or rather kistvaen, consists of two flat stones placed tablewise upon low pillars, the whole about three feet high. 1867 Anthropol. Rev. 5 254 People see one huge stone atop, supported by others, tablewise. 1902 Munsey's Mag. 26 622/2 It was a flat, plain slab of dark gray stone, placed on pillars tablewise. 1974 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 29 Sept. 3/4 His stone, the only one of its kind, a flat slab of slate mounted, tablewise, on three supporting granite legs. 1992 F. H. Jones Conc. Dict. Archit. & Design Hist. 96/1 Cromlech, a large top stone supported tablewise upon several smaller ones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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