Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.