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tabula rasa definition

ta·bula rasa (tab′yə lə rā′sə)

a blank tablet; clean slate: used esp. of the mind when regarded as blank until impressions are recorded upon it by experience

Etymology: ML < L tabula (see table) + rasa, fem. pp. of radere, to scrape, erase

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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