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n. (context religion English) The practice of some Protestant churches to allow all people to take Communion, regardless of being members of the church or not.
Usage examples of "open table".
Tennys glanced down at the small Cardinal, as they headed towards an open table.
The seats by both were in use so Mike headed to the right side of the room, dumping his jump bag on an open table, then pulling out a rickety chair and sitting down.
In the basement, two junior women are folding clothes on an open table, wearing T-shirts and tiny boxer shorts in the swelter of the laundry room.
They went to an open table in one corner of the bustling room, brushed powdered sugar off the chairs, and sat.
He had been fond of music in his home, and had kept open table once a week for all officers of the army not below the rank of captain, and had always preserved in his house a quiet, sensible dignity.
Before the court met we spent a day or two at the house of Grange, living very nobly with an open table, and here it was that we three began to ride out together in the fields, a practice afterwards maintained in Edinburgh, so far as the Advocate's continual affairs permitted.
There wasn't another open table, so moving wasn't much of an option.
The king glanced around the room for an open table, saw quite a few, then moved toward one close to the small fireplace that dominated the taproom's northern wall.