[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To furnish with a tablet (esp. one bearing an inscription); to affix a tablet to.
1864. Reader, 11 June, 750. A large series of Irish and British fossils, about 17,000 specimens … named and tableted.
1883. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., April, 698/2. About the square were numbers of … old houses, with elaborately adorned gables, crow-stepped,… and tableted.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 28 June, 2/2. [The] chapel tableted with the names of some who have died in their country’s service.
b. To inscribe on a tablet.
1878. Masque of Poets, 152. And tableted above Him Still we read ‘Love taught the smith to paint.’
2. ? trans. To make into a tablet; or ? intr. To make tablets.
1889. Sci. Amer., 7 Dec., 363/1. A formula for the preparation of liquid glue for tableting purposes, which can be applied cold and which will retain its elasticity.
