Obs. nonce-wd. [f. TABLE sb. + -ITY; rendering Erasmus’s L. menseitās for Gr. τραπεζότης (Diog. Laertes). Cf. CUPPEITY.] The abstract quality of a table.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 123 b. Hauyng in his mouth … the said forged vocables of the Idees, as for exaumple, tablietees, for the facion of table. Ibid., 124 b [see CUPPEITY].
1656. Stanley, Hist. Philos., VII. (1701), 287/1. Plato answered, it is true indeed, you have Eyes by which the Table and Cup are seen; but not an Intellect, by which Tableity and Cuppeity are seen.
1702. Locke, Defence, App. Pers. Identity (1769), 41. Personality therefore may be ranked among the whole scholastick terms of corporeity, egoity, tableity, etc.
