[n. of action from TABULATE v.; cf. L. tabulātio a flooring over, a floor or story.]
† 1. See quot. Obs. rare–0.
1658. Phillips, Tabulation, (lat.) a fastning together of planks or boards, a making a floor.
2. The action or process of tabulating; arrangement in the form of a table or orderly scheme.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857), III. 101. The value of such a tabulation was immense.
1867. Brande & Cox, Dict. Sc., etc., Tabulation of chronology, the arrangement of historical or professedly historical events according to their real or supposed dates is sometimes spoken of under this name.
1883. Stubbs’ Merc. Circular, 10 Oct., 902/1. If the collection and tabulation of these Statistics were entrusted simply to one department.
3. Arch. Division into successive stages of height by ‘tables’ or horizontal moldings, etc.
1886. Willis & Clark, Cambridge, I. 103. The new design of that front … is … contrived so as to accommodate itself at the angle to the ancient lines of tabulation.
