单词 | tabula |
释义 | tabulan. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1535 |
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