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Webster 1913 Edition
Tabula
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Tab′u-la
,Noun.
pl.
Tabulae
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. [L.]
1.
A table; a tablet.
2.
(Zool.)
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.