Now rare. [ad. L. tabulār-is, f. tabula table: see -ARY2.]

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  1.  Of, pertaining to, contained in, or of the nature of a table: = TABULAR 2 a, b.

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1594.  Blundevil, Exerc., II. (1636), 130. Then subtract the lesser tabulary Sine from the greater.

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1674.  Jeake, Arith. (1696), 104. [The Obolus] is all one with the Sextans, according to the Tabulary Division.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XXI. ii. (1873), IX. 268. Much documentary and tabulary raw-material.

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  † 2.  ? Pictorial. Obs. rare.

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1716.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 106. Whereunto Fabretti appendicularizes a Tabulary Representation of the Destruction of Troy, and a Description of Fucinus, now call’d the Lake of Celano in the Kingdom of Naples.

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  † 3.  Made or recorded upon a ‘table’ or tablet.

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1716.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., VI. Diss. Physick, 29. Even the Original Prescriptions of King Mithridates … were … thought to be owing chiefly to some of those Empyrical Recipe’s recorded in those tabulary Experiences.

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