单词 | tabula rasa |
释义 | > as lemmastabula rasa b. tabula rasa [Latin = scraped tablet] , a tablet from which the writing has been erased, and which is therefore ready to be written upon again; a blank tablet: usually figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > blank tablet razed table?1518 tabula rasa1535 abrase table1601 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 224 Because I haue bene, to this day, Tanquam tabula rasa. 1607 Sir T. Bodley in Cabbala ii. (1654) 76 For that were indeed to become Tabula rasa, when we shall leave no impression of any former principles, but be driven to begin the world again. 1663 R. South Serm. preached Nov. 9, 1662 10 Aristotle..affirms the Mind to be at first a meer Rasa tabula. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 64 The artist will do nothing until he has made a tabula rasa. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 1 June 403/1 France had become a Tabula rasa, and everything had to be reorganized. < as lemmas |
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