单词 | doombook |
释义 | doombookn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.a925 |
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