Lexic.us

Definition of Tabula

1. n. A table; a tablet.

Definition of Tabula

1. a writing tablet [n TABULAE]

Medical Definition of Tabula

1. Origin: L. 1. A table; a tablet. 2. One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Tabula rasa [L], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabula

Literary usage of Tabula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"In a third passage he speaks of a tabula ... to prison, and your colleagues (that is the tribunes) from the tabula Valeria were bidding you to let him go, ..."

2. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"L. tabula, а plank, flat board, table. Lit. 'extended' or flat ; cf. ... L. tabula, a table, plank, board, ^f The spelling taffrail points to confusion with ..."

3. The Science of Thought by Friedrich Max Müller (1887)
"But what is that tabula rasa, which sounds so learned, and yet is mere verbal jugglery? The tabula Let us accept the metaphor that the mind rasa- is like a ..."

4. Customary of the Benedictine Monasteries of Saint Augustine, Canterbury, and by Edward Maunde Thompson, Richard de Ware, Westminster Abbey, Gonville and Caius College Library (1902)
"Nullus enim infra triginta dies aliam missam quam pro defunctis celebrare debet, nisi cum de aliqua missa consueta in tabula extiterit, aut pro majori ..."

5. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1884)
"etc., tabula, multis in locis emendata a J, Danck- ers," which, however, in Asher's opinion was but a revamping of the earlier Visscher plate.1 The map ..."

6. Catholicon anglicum: an English-Latin wordbook, dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1881)
"See also Life of St. Alexius, p. 6s, 1. 989. 'Tables to playe wyth dice ana men. tabula. Table playing. Alea. Table player. Aleator. ..."

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