Now rare. [ad. L. tabulār-is, f. tabula table: see -ARY2.]
1. Of, pertaining to, contained in, or of the nature of a table: = TABULAR 2 a, b.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., II. (1636), 130. Then subtract the lesser tabulary Sine from the greater.
1674. Jeake, Arith. (1696), 104. [The Obolus] is all one with the Sextans, according to the Tabulary Division.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XXI. ii. (1873), IX. 268. Much documentary and tabulary raw-material.
† 2. ? Pictorial. Obs. rare.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 106. Whereunto Fabretti appendicularizes a Tabulary Representation of the Destruction of Troy, and a Description of Fucinus, now calld the Lake of Celano in the Kingdom of Naples.
† 3. Made or recorded upon a table or tablet.
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 Recipes recorded in those tabulary Experiences.