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Tabula n. (pl. tabulae)

A table; a tablet.

(Zool.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

Tabula rasa, 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.

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Etymology of 'Tabula'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... [8] From tabula, or tabella, a picture. Another derivation is, "quasi e tabulis compactum," because the large openings into it might ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... attempted solutions of an insoluble problem may be found in brief in Schanz, Gesch. der roem. Lit. i. 37. Perhaps the boldest is that of Cantorelli, that the annales were constructed not out of the tabula but out of the commentarii; but this is in conflict with the passage in the scholiast on Virgil. To me the difficulty does not seem overwhelming; events occurring "domi militiaeque, terra marique," may have filled considerable ...

— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler