Also 6 Sc. -et. [ad. L. tabulāt-us boarded, planked, in med.L. also panelled, f. tabulāre: see next.]
† 1. Formed of ‘tables’ or panels: panelled. Obs.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 295. The inner parte of this tour al of tabulet [L. tabulato] Wark curiouslie caruet.
2. Formed like a tablet; thin and flat: = TABULAR 1.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 349. Postfrænum. 1. Tabulate (Tabulatum): When it forms a broad pannel or table on each side the postscutellum. Ex. Most Coleoptera.
3. Palæont. Having tabulæ or horizontal dissepiments, as the corals of the group. Tabulata.
1862. Dana, Man. Geol., vi. 618. The interior of the coral divided by horizontal partitions (a characteristic called tabulate by Edwards).
1879. Nicholson (title), On the Structure and Affinities of the ‘Tabulate Corals’ of the Palæozoic Period.
B. sb. = TABLET 3. rare.
1834. Southey, Doctor, xxiv. (1848), 58/1. For all faintness … a cordial was prepared in tabulates, which were called Manus Christi.
