tabu

‖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 ety>[ 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 ]

a. [ L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table. ] Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) Set in squares. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tabular difference (Math.), the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table. --
Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tabularized p. pr. & vb. n. Tabularizing ] To tabulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored. ] (Zool.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tabulated p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating. ] [ L. tabula a table. See Tabular. ] 1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses. [ 1913 Webster ]

A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shape with a flat surface. [ 1913 Webster ]