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tabula
noun
What it means
- countableuncountableA plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
A.D. Fragment of an inscription in a tabula carved in the rock.
1982, H. W. Pleket, R. S. Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum [SEG]: 1978, page 2275 more examples
The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.
1937, Kyancutta Museum, Memoirs - Issues 4-6, page 103The date is written above the tabula and down the right side, which is worn; the main text is written within the tabula, with each line of verse separated by an incised line.
1989, Charlotte Roueché, Joyce Maire Reynolds, Aphrodisias in Late AntiquityThe front side has a raised border; it is decorated with a tabula between two shields.
1997, J. H. M. Strubbe, Arai Epitymbioi: Imprecations Against Desecrators of the Grave in the Greek Epitaphs of Asis Minor, page 210The lower profile is finished from the first niche (N1) up to the second tabula (T2), but to the west of T2, at O10, only its astragal is complete.
2005, Orhan Bingöl, Menderes Magnesiası, page 42It was worked separately from its foot but with its tabula which is decorated with a square, four-petaled rosette in relief.
2006, R. R. R. Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, page 245 - countableuncountableA table, index, or list of data.
Another tabula represents the rate of morbidity according to different organs and age groups.
1962, Neoplasma, page 2213 more examples
Another tabula on third fly-leaf, and some writing in a later hand. Titles and initials throughout in red and blue.
1908, James Maurice Wilson, Cosmo Alexander Gordon, Early Compotus Rolls of the Priory of Worcester, page 28This may be done on the spot, or the initial tabula(e) may be delineated prior to the meeting (e.g., via an agreed agenda or results from a prior session). The ongoing course of tabulation will then be an open-ended process alternating between propagation of tabulae and discursive refinement of the emerging tabular structure.
1992, Randall Whitaker, Venues for Contexture: A Critical Analysis and Enactive Reformulation of Group Decision Support Systems, page 157The tabula displays that interpretation of planning content has more focus in the Nordic group of countries (except Iceland), than in the Baltic group – even if the countries have chosen different tools.
2008, Increased Exchange in the Building Sector, page 72 - countableuncountableA legal record.
The soldiers who dedicated the tabula to the empress might have had a personal connection with her, but if so, it was not a typical relationship.
2013, Julie Langford, Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood, page 233 more examples
However, as Ugolinus is known as an industrious, honourable man, acquainted with his subject, and who cannot easily be suspected of fraud, there is nothing against assuming the probability that at the publication of his work he had really before him such a tabula.
1850, Moses Margoliouth, A Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers - Volume 1, page 144On the other hand, the acquisition of the legal estate merely as a tabula is usually not a transaction for value, and here at any rate the fact that it is conveyed in breach of an express trust will prevail to take it away.
1912, Roland Moffatt Perowne Willoughby, The Distinctions and Anomalies Arising Out of the Equitable Doctrine of the Legal Estate, page 74However, proclamation was to be made of the offence and the misdeed inscribed on a 'tabula' in the Guildhall, so that citizens and other inhabitants might be warned not to employ him in any spiritual office.
2014, Fernanda Pirie, Judith Scheele, Legalism: Community and Justice
In a sentence
The tabula is here seen to have an irregular structure of coarse mesh whose interstices are occupied by a finer mesh.
1937, Kyancutta Museum, Memoirs - Issues 4-6, page 103
Where it comes from
- Latintabula
- Englishtabula
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