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单词 doombook
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doombookn.

/ˈduːmbʊk/
Forms: Also domebook, domesbook, doomsbook.
Etymology: Old English dóm-bóc, book of dooms.
1. A book or code of (Old Teutonic) laws; spec. that attributed to King Alfred and referred to in the laws of later West Saxon kings. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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society > law > written law > [noun] > book of laws or statutes
doombooka925
law-bookc1175
statute book1558
a925 Laws of Edward Preamble [Swa] hit on ðære dom~bec stande.
a940 Laws of Athelstan (Schmid) ii. v Bete be ðam ðe seo dom-boc secge.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 198 Oð þæt he com to ðam dom-bocum ðe se Heofenlica Wealdend his folce gesette.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 159 in Justice Vindicated If any one shall not pay, let him incur the punishment expressed in the Doom-book (Laws of K. Eadgar).
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 66 A new edition, or fresh promulgation, of Alfred's code or dome-book.
1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 218 The records..exist in the Doomsbooks..of this country and other lands in the north of Europe.
2. transferred. A book of doom or judgement.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. viii. 83 Cursed is that trade;..and is verily marked in the Doom-Book of a God.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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