Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the
presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high
rank at the French court.
Tab"rere (?), n. A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.
Tab"ret (?), n. A taboret. Young.
Ta*bu" (?), n. & v. See Taboo.
||Tab"u*la (?), n.; pl. Tabulæ (#). [L.] 1. A table; a tablet.
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2. (Zoöl.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of
certain corals and hydroids.
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.
Tab"u*lar (?), 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: —
(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
(b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
Woodward.
(c) Set in squares. [R.]
(d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
(e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right
ascension.
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.
Tab`u*lar*i*za"tion (?), n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of
being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
Tab"u*lar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabularized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabularizing (?).] To tabulate.
||Tab`u*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.] (Zoöl.) An
||artificial group of stony corals including those which have
||transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and
||Favosites are examples.
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Tab"u*late (?), 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.
A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be
tabulated, and put in figures.