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‖ tabula|ˈtæbjʊlə|
Pl. -æ |-iː|.
[The L. word tabula table, used in particular senses.]
1. An ancient writing-tablet; also transf., a body of laws inscribed on a tablet: see table n. 2 b, d, tablet n. 1 c.
1881E. Hübner in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 124/1 Instruments or charters, public and private (styled by the Romans first leges, afterwards instrumenta or tabulæ). 1904C. Wordsworth Old Service Bks. 264 The Tabula or Wax-brede was of the nature of service-paper rather than of a service⁓book.
b. tabula rasa [L. = scraped tablet], a tablet from which the writing has been erased, and which is therefore ready to be written upon again; a blank tablet: usually fig.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 224 Because I haue bene, to this day, Tanquam tabula rasa. 1607Sir T. Bodley in Cabbala ii. (1654) 76 For that were indeed to become Tabula rasa, when we shall leave no impression of any former principles, but be driven to begin the world again. 1662South Serm. (1727) I. 52 Aristotle..affirms the Mind to be at first a mere Rasa Tabula. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 73 The artist will do nothing until he has made a tabula rasa. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 1 June 403/1 France had become a Tabula rasa, and everything had to be reorganized.
2. Eccl. A wooden or metal frontal for an altar.
1845Parker Gloss. Archit. s.v. Table, The most remarkable example of the tabula, destined for the front of the Altar, is preserved in Westminster abbey; it is formed of wood, elaborately carved, painted, and enriched with a kind of mosaic work of coloured glass superficially inlaid.
3. a. Anat. = table n. 16.
1857Dunglison Med. Dict., Table, Tabula, Tabella, Tabulatum,..a name given to the plates of compact tissue, which form the bones of the cranium. Of these, one is external; the other internal, and called Tabula vitrea, on account of its brittleness.
b. Palæont. Name for the horizontal dissepiments in certain corals: cf. tabulate a. 3.
1855Lyell Elem. Geol. xxv. (ed. 5) 407 The lamellæ are seen around the inside of the cup;..and large transverse plates, called tabulæ, divide the interior into chambers. 1859Murchison Siluria (ed. 2) x. 243 The development of the transverse plates or tabulæ, in the body of the coral. |
