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单词 tabula
释义

tabulan.

/ˈtabjʊlə/
Forms: Plural tabulæ /-iː/.
Etymology: The Latin word tabula table n., used in particular senses.
1.
a. An ancient writing-tablet; also transferred, a body of laws inscribed on a tablet: see table n. 2b, 2d, tablet n. 1a.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > writing tablet > [noun]
wax-bredc960
tableOE
tabletc1300
writing tablea1451
writing tablet1601
codicil1640
tablette1711
pugillares1729
pugillaries1759
wax tablet1807
tabula1881
1881 E. Hübner in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 124/1 Instruments or charters, public and private (styled by the Romans first leges, afterwards instrumenta or tabulæ).
1904 C. Wordsworth & H. Littlehales Old Service-bks. Eng. Church 264 The Tabula or Wax-brede was of the nature of service-paper rather than of a service~book.
b. tabula rasa [Latin = 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 figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > blank tablet
razed table?1518
tabula rasa1535
abrase table1601
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 224 Because I haue bene, to this day, Tanquam tabula rasa.
1607 Sir 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.
1663 R. South Serm. preached Nov. 9, 1662 10 Aristotle..affirms the Mind to be at first a meer Rasa tabula.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 64 The artist will do nothing until he has made a tabula rasa.
1893 Nation (N.Y.) 1 June 403/1 France had become a Tabula rasa, and everything had to be reorganized.
2. Christian Church. A wooden or metal frontal for an altar.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > altar > parts of altar > [noun] > frontal
tablement1446
table1447
tabula1845
1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 357 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. Anatomy. = table n. 19.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > tabulate structure of
tablea1400
tablature1615
tablet1826
tabula1842
tabling1891
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) 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. Palaeontology. Name for the horizontal dissepiments in certain corals: cf. tabulate adj. 3.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of > septum > horizontal septum
tabula1855
1855 C. Lyell Elem. Geol. (ed. 5) xxv. 407 The lamellæ are seen around the inside of the cup;..and large transverse plates, called tabulæ, divide the interior into chambers.
1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) x. 243 The development of the transverse plates or tabulæ, in the body of the coral.
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