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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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