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tabula


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tabula  \Tab"u*la\,  n.;  pl  {Tabul[ae]}.  [L.] 
  1.  A  table;  a  tablet. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  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. 




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