tabulae

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tabulae - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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