tabulare

tabulare [CL tabula+-are; cf. tabulatum, tabulatus] 1 to fit with coping or stringcourse, or to install panelling or floorboards in (room); b (absol.). 1291 in muro castri retro idem torallum erigendo et ~ando, cum cariagio petre et terre ‥ xiiij s. KR Ac 486/6; 1323 ad ipsam cameram regulandam, ~andam, et singulandam (Glos) MinAc 854/7; 1369 in clavis ad ~andum pulbitum, ij d. Ac. Churchw. Bath 9; 1466 in ccc tabulis emptis ‥ et solario ~ando Ib. 63.  b 1211 in j fraxino sternend', scapuland' et secand' inde ~and' ad opus episcopi Pipe Wint. 131. 2 to make flat or level, (p. ppl. as adj.) flat; b (of deformed face). 1388 de ‥ j carecta fimali ~ata LTR AcEsch 10 r. 5.  b ductus est ad eum vir quidam ~atam faciem habens sine oculis et naribus et benedixit Aidus faciem ejus et dedit ei Deus oculos et nares (Aiduus 16) VSH II 299. 3 to pattern with squares of alternate colours like a chequer board, to chequer, (p. ppl. as adj.) chequered, (perh. also transf.) patterned. b (p. ppl. as sb.) ? square of a chequer board or playing piece used on a chequer board. 1245 pannus de aresta ‥ ~atus rubeo et indico Invent. S. Paul. 493; 1326 tres cupas ‥ quarum alie due deaurate, indentate, et ~ate ‥ et unam cupam deauratam et esmelatam in capite, indentatam, et ~atam Cl 144 m. 4.  b in ‥ ~atis et scaccariis ‥ de cornuum vel solidiori ossuum materia procreandis R. Cold. Cuthb. 88 p. 186. 4 to enter on a list or notice-board, to put on a rota. b (p. ppl. as sb.) notice-board, list. 1439 omnes ‥ qui in festis ‥ celebrare habeant magnas missas in ecclesia per vicecancellarium singulis diebus sabati ~entur et scribantur. si tempore hujus tabulacionis ‥ decanus ‥ festum pro celebrando ex devocione licet non ~atus assumere sibi velit, libere permittatur Stat. Linc. I 219.  b cum a quodam fratre regulariter in ~ata sibi injungeretur vices suas supportare (Thomas Dovorie) NLA II 554. 5 (p. ppl. as sb. f.) ? table. gens ‥ Harpyiis similis, violando vasa liquoris, / ac mensas hominum, tabulatas ac mulierum Reg. Whet. I 400.