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CIDE DICTIONARY

tabula, n. [L.].

A table; a tablet. [1913 Webster]
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.