tabula

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.

   • The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.
   • A.D. Fragment of an inscription in a tabula carved in the rock.
   • The date is written above the tabula and down the right side, which is worn; the main text is written within the tabula, with each line of verse separated by an incised line.
2. 2

   A table, index, or list of data.

   • Another tabula on third fly-leaf, and some writing in a later hand. Titles and initials throughout in red and blue.
   • Another tabula represents the rate of morbidity according to different organs and age groups.
3. 3

   A legal record.

   • On the other hand, the acquisition of the legal estate merely as a tabula is usually not a transaction for value, and here at any rate the fact that it is conveyed in breach of an express trust will prevail to take it away.
   • The soldiers who dedicated the tabula to the empress might have had a personal connection with her, but if so, it was not a typical relationship.
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   1. 4

      A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.

      • On the tabula of the mind she tried to write the word.
      • Can we send them a message? With your tabula perhaps, the way Olwen did when Moira needed you?
      • The mind is a tabula to engrave the story of reality's cataclysmic impacts, the individual—a tool through which history confides it to mankind.
   2. 5

      A frontal

      A frontal; a drapery for an altar.

      • Another tabula in the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. probably belonged to the same textile.
      • Another tabula in Paris shows the same characteristics but even more progressively stylized and is therefore dated to the Arabian period, eighth to ninth century.
      • Another tabula ( cat.89 ) recalls the naturalistic concept of the classic Graeco-Roman portrait, in widespread use up to the 4th or 5th century.
   3. 6

      An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.

      • Readers may like to make a tabula board and try a simple game from France using two cubic dice.
      • A bronze mirror from about 200 B.C. depicts a young man and a young woman playing tabula.
      • Two men hunched in silence over black and white counters on a tabula board which had been carved around the edge with scenes of warriors at arms.
   4. 7

      One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

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