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Tablet   /tˈæblət/   Listen
Tablet

noun
1.
A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription.
2.
A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.  Synonyms: pad, pad of paper.
3.
A small flat compressed cake of some substance.
4.
A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet.  Synonyms: lozenge, pill, tab.



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"Tablet" Quotes from Famous Books



... temptation the Emperor might have been on the whole better pleased, whatever the sufferings of the philosopher. Both lived to be the tyrants of many generations of beauties at the Celestial Court. Both were assiduous in their devotions before the spirit tablet of the departed lady, and in recommending her example of reserve and humility to every damsel whom ...
— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck
... of the 21st Fusiliers. He was hastening to the assistance of Lord Kilwarden on the fatal night of Emmett's rebellion, when he was basely assassinated. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Paul's, Dublin, where his brother officers erected a marble tablet to his memory. He left an only daughter, who was married, in 1826, to M. G. Benson, Esq., of Lulwyche Hall, Salop. It is through this lady that we have been permitted to inspect the family papers relating to the life and ...
— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles
... tablet is prepared, upon which is inscribed the totem or heraldic emblem of the injured man's gens, and a picture-writing setting ...
— Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society - Bureau of American Ethnology • John Wesley Powell
... discernment. Behold the proof of my passion; My finger, burning with the glow of love, Has left its impress on the painted tablet; While here and there, alas! a scalding tear Has fallen on the cheek and dimmed its brightness. Chaturika, the garden in the background of the picture is only half-painted. Go, fetch the brush that I may ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... saints, Luther also invents fourteen defenders or comforters, and arranges them in this writing in the form of an altar tablet; but his is not a tablet such as those found in the churches, representing the fourteen defenders, but it is a spiritual tablet or painting, to uplift and strengthen the pious heart of the Elector, and of all others who are weary and heavy laden. The first division, or ...
— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther


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