'Tabula' definitions:
Definition of 'Tabula'
From: GCIDE
- Tabula \Tab"u*la\, n.; pl. Tabulae. [L.]
- 1. A table; a tablet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]