[f. late L. tabulāt-, ppl. stem of tabulāre (Onom. lat. gr. in Quicherat Addenda) to board, plank, floor; in other senses directly from mod. senses of TABLE.]
† 1. trans. (See quot.) Obs. rare–0.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tabulate, to board a floore or other place, to make a thing of boards.
2. To put into the form of a table, scheme, or synopsis; to arrange, summarize, or exhibit in a table; to draw up a table of.
1734. J. Kirkby, trans. Barrow’s Math. Lect., Pref. 29. That we rightly … tabulate, and calculate scattered ranks of numbers, and easily compute them.
1804. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., II. 357. The result of this writer’s enquiries and speculations are thus tabulated.
1869. Farrar, Fam. Speech, ii. (1873), 70, note. We may tabulate the Italic family as follows.
3. To enter on the roll. Sc. Obs. (Pa. pple. tabulat(e.)
c. 1630. Sir T. Hope, Minor Practicks (1726), 5. If the principal Cause be of that Nature, which requires to be tabulate.
¶ 4. ‘To shape with a flat surface’ (Todd). Only in TABULATED ppl. a., q. v.
Hence Tabulating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1757. Ld. Kames, Stat. Law Scot., 357. Tabulating of summons.
1901. Daily Tel., 8 March, 10/7. The tabulating staff … are admitted on the ordinary examinations.
