Tabula

Definition of Tabula:

part of speech: noun

Tabulae. Horizontal partitions traversing the vertical canals of Hydrocorallina and of tabulate corals.

Usage examples for Tabula:

• None of the medals dug up within the precincts of the town, or in its neighborhood, bear a later date than the reign of Constantine; and, though the city is recorded in the Itinerary of Antoninus, no mention of it is to be found in the curious chart, known by the name of the Tabula Peutingeriana, formed under the reign of Theodosius the Great; so that it then appears to have been completely swept away and forgotten. "Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)", Dawson Turner.

• Agreeably to this, Andreas Fabricius, in 1569, called the " Haustafel" a domestic table of works, tabula operum domestica. "Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church", Friedrich Bente.

• In 1525 he imitated Holbein's elaborate border to the Tabula Cebetis, applying it to a Dictionarium Graecum. "Fine Books", Alfred W. Pollard.

• According to this the soul when created is a tabula rasa, but having certain capacities inherent in it in consequence of the nature of its Creator. "Dante: His Times and His Work", Arthur John Butler.