Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Roman antiquity, a table or tablet; especially, a writing-tablet; hence, a writing or document; a legal instrument or record.
- n. In anatomy and zoology, a table or tablet; a hard, flat, expansive surface, as of bone; specifically, in corals, a dissepiment; one of the highly developed and usually transverse or horizontal partitions which cut the septa, when these are present, at right angles, forming a set of floorings or ceilings of certain cavities. Tabulæ are characteristic of some sclerodermatous corals (hence called
Tabulata , or tabulate corals), in which they extend across the thecæ from side to side. - n. Eccles., same as frontal, 5 .
Wiktionary
- n. A table or tablet.
- n. zoology One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A table; a tablet.
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Also, there was this one poem in it called tabula rasa.”
“BUT … to tie it back to LOST, John Locke – the philosopher not that other John Locke – used the phrase tabula rasa to define his philosophy of the mind as a blank slate.”
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“While the notion of tabula rasa focused on the impressionability of, and “exposure learning” by, the child, the emphasis on the infant's dependency pointed to what very much later came to be called instrumental learning.”
“Only of course, Nénette emerges as a kind of tabula rasa...a moving confrontation with the fool on the hill, about which Society has long mythologized, both envying, pitying -- and thus, condemning -- her/him.”
“Only of course, Nénette emerges as a kind of tabula rasa...a moving confrontation with the fool on the hill, about which Society has long mythologized, both envying, pitying -- and thus, condemning -- her/him.”
“If you had asked me on Wednesday afternoon about that passage, I would have remembered exactly one thing: In the original, both "tabula" and "rasa" were misspelled, a rare twofer in the Misspelling, Foreign Words category.”
“Perhaps he saw me as some kind of tabula rasa upon which he could inscribe the unique signature of his craft, like a missionary teaching a savage to read the word of God.”
“And that is a wonderful place to reach because you've achieved a kind of tabula rasa.”
“It certainly helps that the a capella original track presented a kind of tabula rasa for other artists, but I'd think no one would have bothered to re-mix this song if the original work weren't so compelling.”
“The Tabula is an organization that believes that mankind is a tabula rasa a blank slate that can be scrawled with their ideas.”
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chained_bear "Palæont. Name for the horizontal dissepiments in certain corals." (OED) Sep 15, 2008