commensality
(kɒmɛnˈsælɪtɪ)
[f. commensal: cf. F. commensalité.]
Commensal state; the habit of eating at the same table.
| 1611 Cotgr., Commensalité, Commensalitie; a continuall feeding together at one table. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. (ed. 2) 142 Being enjoined or prohibited certain foods..to avoid community with the Gentiles upon promiscuous commensality. 1825 New Monthly Mag. XVI. 326 ‘Eating together,’ as Dr. Johnson would say, ‘promotes good will, Sir, commensality is benevolent’. 1881 R. N. Cust in Mission Life No. 137. 201 Modified Caste, limited..to Rules of Intermarriage and Commensality. |