FromLate Latintabulātus(“having a floor; floored”),perfectpassiveparticiple oftabulō(“to fit with planks”), fromtabula(“board, plank”), of uncertain origin, possibly fromProto-Indo-European*teh₂- (a variant of*steh₂-(“to stand”)) +*-dʰlom (a variant of*-trom(suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)). Equivalent totable +‎-ate(verb-forming suffix).

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tabulate (third-person singular simple presenttabulates,present participletabulating,simple past and past participletabulated)

1. (transitive) Toarrange intabular form; to arrange into atable.
   • 1700,William Leybourn, “Instrumental Arithmetick. The Third Part. Teaching, by a New Artifice (not heretofore Published, to My Knowledge, in any Language.) The Manner how to Set Down any Decimal Fraction Required:[...] by Certain Scales Contrived, Suitable to the Coins, Weights and Measures Now Used in England. And for the Extracting of the Square and Cube Roots. Also, by Nepair’s Bones[...]”, inArithmetick, Vulgar, Decimal, Instrumental, Algebraical. In Four Parts, 7th edition, London: Printed by J. Matthews, forAwnsham and John Churchill, at the Black-Swan inPater-Noster-Row,→OCLC, section II (ByNepair’s Bones), subsection IV (How to Apply to Lay Down any Numbers by the Rods), proposition I (Any Number being Given, how to Tabulate or Lay Down the Same by Rods),page265:

     Let it be required toTabulate or lay down this Number 3496. Firſt, from among your Sets of Rods (or out of your Caſe) take four of them, of which let one of them have the Figure 3 at the top thereof, and lay it upon your Tabellet cloſe to the Edge thereof,[…]

   • 1872 January, “[Official Department. Thirty-eighth annual report.] Report of the President of the Agricultural College”, in J. P. Wickersham, editor,The Pennsylvania School Journal: An Educational Magazine, volume XX, number 7, Lancaster, Pa.: Wylie & Griest, Inquirer Printing House and Bindery,→OCLC,page226:

     It [the School Department] gives advice and instruction concerning their duties to thirteen thousand school directors and controllers, furnishes them blanks, receives andtabulates their reports, reviews their accounts, judges whether they have kept their schools open according to law, and, if so, pays them the State appropriation for their respecive districts.

   • 1903 March 25,G[opal] K[rishna] Gokhale, quotingEdward FitzGerald Law, “Budget Speech, 1903”, inSpeeches of the Honourable Mr. G. K. Gokhale, […], Madras:G[anapathi] A[graharam] Natesan & Co., […], published[1908],→OCLC,page62:

     The inevitable deduction from the figurestabulated must be thatthe material prosperity of the people as a whole is making good progress.

   • 1924 November, William Hulbert Barrow, “A General Athletic Ability Test”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor,American Physical Education Review, volume XXIX, number 9 (number 201 overall),[Springfield, Mass.]: [American Physical Education Association],→OCLC,page506, column 1:

     In addition to the evident needs mentioned above there is also a desire to standardize andtabulate results. The same desire in other fields has given rise to intelligence tests, psychological examinations, etc.

   • 1974, Allan B. Ellis, “Common Conceptions about Computers”, inThe Use & Misuse of Computers in Education, New York, N.Y.:McGraw-Hill Book Company,→ISBN, part I (What is a Computer?),page15:

     [Herman] Hollerith, a statistician for the United States government, was faced with the task oftabulating the figures of the 1890 census at a time when suchtabulating would take more than ten years if done by hand.[…] Faced with this prospect, Hollerith conceived the idea of representing the census data as holes on punched cards and of building machines that would sort these cards according to the holes they contained and that wouldtabulate and otherwise analyze the data.

2. (transitive) Toset out as alist; toenumerate, tolist.

   Synonyms:recite;see alsoThesaurus:tick off

   • 1867,Albert Günther, “Reptilia”, in Albert C[harles] L[ewis] G[otthilf] Günther, editor,The Record of Zoological Literature. 1866, volume III, London:John Van Voorst,Paternoster Row,→OCLC,pages121–122:

     Mr.[Edward Drinker] Cope has examined a collection from the territory of Arizona and in the Colorado district; it contained 44 species.[…] Hetabulates them according to their range into the neighbouring provinces, and points out that, herpetologically, the Sonoran and Lower Californian provinces are nearly as distinct from each other as the Sonoran is from the Central,[…]

   • 1941,R[oberto] Weiss, chapter II, inHumanism in England during the Fifteenth Century, Oxford:Basil Blackwell,→OCLC,page35:

     [John] Whethemstede's literary productions show his preference for encyclopedias in which he couldtabulate under special headings the limits of his wide reading.

   • 1955,Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 5, inLolita, Paris:Olympia Press,→OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Crest Giant,Fawcett World Library, 1959 December,→OCLC,page19:

     You have to be an artist and a madman,[…] in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me totabulate—the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.

3. (transitive,Scotland,obsolete) Toenter into anofficialregister orroll.

   Synonyms:enroll;see alsoThesaurus:enlist

   • 1687,George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, “King James the Fifth, Parl. 5. [Act 52.]”, inObservations on the Acts of Parliament,[...], Edinburgh: Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, printer to His Most Sacred Majesty, and are to be sold by Thomas Brown, and other book-sellers,→OCLC,page134:

     The order ofTabulating Summonds is now much alter'd, for no Summonds areTabulated except Actions of Declarators, Improbations, Contraventions, and other Actions at the King's Advocats inſtance,[…]

4. (transitive) Toshape with aflatsurface.

• cross-tabulate

FromLate Latintabulāta(“thin board, plank, flooring”),^[2] or more likely arelatinized version oftablet throughtabula.

tabulate (pluraltabulates)

1. (pharmacy,obsolete) Apill, atablet.
   • 1596, Philip Barrough [i.e.,Philip Barrow], “Of Electuaries, and Conserues: of Lozenges, and Manus Christi”, inThe Method of Phisick, Containing the Cavses, Signes, and Cvres of Inward Diseases in Mans Body, from the Head to the Foote. Whereunto is Added, The Forme and Rule of Making Remedies and Medicines, which Our Physitions Commonly Vse at this Day, with the Proportion, Quantitie, and Names of Each Medicine, 3rd corrected and augmented edition, book VII, Imprinted at London: ByRichard Field, and are to be sold inPaules Church yard at the signe of the brasen Serpent,→OCLC,pages404–405:

     ℞. the three kindes ofſaunders, andDiarrhodon Abbatis, ana.℈. j. the bone of the Hartes heart one in number, ſugarroſatetabulate, or white ſugar diſſolued in roſe water as much as ſufficeth, make an Electuarie, gild it with leaues of pure golde in weight℥.ß.

   • 1605, Christopher Wirtzung[i.e. Christof Wirsung], “Of the Hart, the Most Precious Part of Mans Body”, in Jacob Mosan, transl.,The General Practise of Physicke: Conteyning All Inward and Outward Parts of the Body, with All the Accidents and Infirmities that are Incident vnto Them, euen from the Crowne of the Head to the Sole of the Foote:[...] in the Germane Tongue, and now Translated into English, in Diuerse Places Corrected, and with Many Additions Illustrated and Augmented,[...], London: [Printed byRichard Field] Impensis [at the expense of] Georg[e] Bishop,→OCLC, § 1 (Of the Fainting of the Hart in Generall.[The Order of Life or Diet for This Faintnes of the Hart.]),page259:

     A Bad ſtomacke is otherwhiles no ſmall cauſe of thisſwouning, for it procureth before the ſwouning come a heate ouer the whole bodie. As ſoone as this ſhall be perceiued, it is not amiſſe to vſe for it confected Balſam wood, but in the ſtead thereof takeTabulates ofXyloaloe, which are very requiſite for it.

   • 1834,[Robert Southey], “Quack and No Quack, being an Account of Dr. Green and His Man Kemp. Popular Medicine, Herbary, Theory of Signatures, William Dove, John Wesley, and Baxter.”, inThe Doctor, &c., volume I, London:Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman,→OCLC,page236:

     For all faintness, hot agues, heavy fantasies and imaginations, a cordial was prepared intabulates, which was calledManus Christi: the true receipt required one ounce of prepared pearls to twelve of fine sugar, boiled with rose water, violet water, cinnamon water, "or howsoever one would have them."

Back-formation fromTabulata(“an extinct order of corals”) on the basis of-ate(adjective-forming suffix, corresponding toLatin-ātus (formingparticiples), itself seen inTabulata), fromLatintabulāta, thenominativeneuterplural oftabulātus(“floored”).See further atetymology 1. The order is so named because the corals are characterized by their well-developed horizontal internal partitions (tabulae). Equivalent totabula +‎-ate(adjective-forming suffix).

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tabulate (notcomparable)

1. (paleontology) Describing amember of anextinctorder ofcorals, theTabulata: havingtabulae (well-developedhorizontalinternalpartitions within eachcell).
   • 1865,Samuel Haughton, “Lecture VIII”, inManual of Geology (Galbraith and Haughton’s Scientific Manuals, Experimental and Natural Science Series), London:Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green,→OCLC,page192:

     [W]e find the Zoantharia, in section (1), divided intotabulate and non-tabulate corals. The specimen before us is evidentlytabulate, and we therefore follow the reference to section (2), where we find thetabulate corals divided into those with and those without cœnenchyma.

   • 1868 January, “American Association for the Advancement of Science”, in David A. P. Watt, editor,The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist: A Bi-monthly Journal of Natural Science, Conducted by a Committee of the Natural History Society of Montreal (Second Series), volume III, number 4, Montreal, Que.: Dawson Brothers, Great St. James Street,→OCLC,pages294–295:

     On the Zoological Affinities of theTabulate Corals; by Prof.A. E. Verrill.—The questions discussed in this paper were the position of thetabulate corals among Polyps, and the true value of thetabulate structure in classification.[…] Prof.[Addison Emery] Verrill, therefore, concludes that thetabulate structure is of secondary importance as a character, in fixing their affinities, and that the Tabulata must be dismembered,—Halisites, Millepora, and their allies, being classed as Hydroids; and Pocillopora and Favosites with other extinct tabulated genera, as true Polyps.

   • 1879,H[enry] Alleyne Nicholson, “Thecidæ and Helioporidæ”, inOn the Structure and Affinities of the “Tabulate Corals” of the Palæozoic Period: With Critical Descriptions of Illustrative Species, Edinburgh, London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC,page236:

     The large corallites aretabulate, with indistinctly differentiated walls, provided with obtusely triangular and irregular septa, and having their visceral cavities more or less freely connected with one another by lateral horizontal channels, which penetrate the interstitial tubular tissue.

• holotabulate
• tabulate coral

From asubstantivation of the formeradjective through the associatedtaxon's name (Tabulata). Equivalent totabula +‎-ate(forms nouns meaning "specimen of a corresponding taxon ending in-ata")

tabulate (pluraltabulates)

1. (paleontology) Amember of theorderTabulata.
   • 2013, Walter M. Goldberg, “A Brief History of Reefs and Corals”, inThe Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms, Chicago, Ill., London:University of Chicago Press,→ISBN, section 13-2 (An Introduction to Paleozoic Corals),page272, column 2:

     Bothtabulates and rugosans evolved independently as part of the Ordovician Radiation; thetabulates appeared first in the Early Ordovician (~488Mya), followed by rugosans about 20 My later.

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tabulate

1. inflection oftabulare:
   1. second-personpluralpresentindicative
   2. second-personpluralimperative

tabulate f pl

1. feminineplural oftabulato

tabulāte

1. vocativemasculinesingular oftabulātus

tabulate

1. second-personsingular voseoimperative oftabular combined withte