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entabling

entabling is the present participle and gerund of entable.

Meaning of entable

Verb

entable (third-person singular simple present entables, present participle entabling, simple past and past participle entabled)

  1. To record; to enter into a permanent record.
    • He is the embodied law, entabled on Sinai; the perfect sacrifice, foreshadowed in the temple; the consecrated life set forth in the old ritual; the wisdom and power divine desired of the nations.1865, The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer, page 288
  2. To add to a schedule of participants in events.
    • Groups of them were entabled each week or fortnight to sing the antiphons, responds, versicle, gradual, Benedicamus, O Redemptor or Gloria Laus; the number entabled varied according to the solemnity of the feasts.1967, Kathleen Edwards, The English Secular Cathedrals in the Middle Ages, page 315
  3. To fill a table with; to present in tabular format.
    • The data to show this type of effect is entabled for the monovalent group, children and adults, in Tables 7a and 7b.1960, Herman Kleinman, Robert N. Barr, Henry Bauer, Anne C. Kimball, Marion K. Cooney, Jacob E. Bearman, Wayne E. Mathey, “Further Experiences with Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccines in Minnesota”, in...
  4. To create multiple flat raised areas in.
    • Built on a place with a privileged landscape view, with the cloister in rustic style, the roof's weatherboard finished in entabled tiles, the Monastery's windows and doors are of flat lintels with grates on the ground floor and fitted with glass […]1985, Tom Maia, Velha Bahia de Hoje, page 15

Questions about entabling

What is entabling the present participle and gerund of?
Entabling is the present participle and gerund of entable.

Words near entabling in the dictionary

  1. entable
  2. entabled
  3. entablement
  4. entablements
  5. entables
  6. entabling
  7. entabulate
  8. entabulated
  9. entabulates
  10. entabulating
  11. entabulation

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