great bookn.

Brit.

/ˌɡreɪt ˈbʊk/, U.S.

/ˌɡreɪt ˈbʊk/

Forms: see great adj., n., adv., and int. and book n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: great adj., book n.

Etymology: < great adj. + book n. In sense 1b after French grand livre (1678 or earlier in sense ‘ledger’, 1793 in Grand Livre de la Dette Publique).

Now historical.

a. A book of financial accounts, a ledger.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > ledger

ledger-book1553

ledger1588

great book1621

post-book1714

general ledger1732

1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. sig. Dd.iiij When the caterpillor hath once cropped the leaffe and deuowred the boodd, the tree doth not only die and perish with infamye, but the remembrance of such stocke and frute remeines in the recordes of reproche to the opening of the greate booke of general accompt.]

1621 Lawes E. India Co. ccv. 44 They may bee reviewed by the Auditors, and after, entred orderly by the Accomptants into the Companies great Bookes.

1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 38 In the posting of the same into his great Book, or Leidger, the Forreign Coynes must be duely exprest.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Book-Keeping Ledger, or Great Book..is a huge Volume, usually rul'd into Six Columns.

1787 tr. S. Stevin in W. Combe Anderson's Hist. Origin Commerce (rev. ed.) II. 131 One side of the ancient Romans great book (or ledger) served for a debit-side, and the other for a credit-side.

1857 L. C. Cumming tr. G. Freytag Debit & Credit I. xv. 175 When Liebold enters his figures in the great book, and admires their fair caligraphical [sic] procession, he silently smiles with delight.

1905 J. R. Fogo in R. Brown Hist. Accounting & Accountants i. vi. 170 Has not an American arisen who throws the ledger—the ‘Great Book’ of his fathers—to the winds and substitutes a drawer full of loose sheets?

1994 F. Gies & J. Gies Cathedral, Forge, & Waterwheel (1995) vi. 184 Daily receipts and expenses were entered in a rough copybook, eventually to be transferred to a more systematic ‘great book’.

b. spec. A ledger containing a list of the creditors of some continental European states, originally that instituted in France in 1793. Usually more fully great book of (the) public debt.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > specific

Great Roll1397

pell1434

red book?1445

pipe1461

the Black Book of the Exchequer1592

pipe roll1612

great book1794

scoreboard1823

1794 R. Heron Information Powers at War 165 The national debts entered in the Great Book, amount to more than six thousand millions.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 54 Inscriptions on the Great Book of the French National Debt cannot be attached.

1809 Literary Panorama 5 1288 The Councillors of State have presented to the Legislative Body the plan of a great book of the public debt, to be introduced into this country [sc. Holland] .

1866 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs (39th U.S. Congress) III. 93 A duplicate of the great book of public debt is deposited with the [Belgian] court of accounts.

1909 Outlook 17 July 631/2 The Pope is guaranteed a perpetual annuity of over $600,000, which is entered every year, free of all tax, in the Great Book of the public debt.

1922 tr. Constit. Belgium Art. 47, in New Larned Hist. II. 967/1 A supplementary vote is conferred on each citizen who fulfills one of the following conditions:..2. To..be owner:..of an inscription in the great book of the public debt, [etc.].

1965 New Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1995) IX. x. 291 A third of each government bond, the tiers consolidé, remained inscribed in the great book of the public debt.

1998 N. Sartor in A. J. Auerbach et al. Generational Accounting around World (1999) xiii. 300 (note) Following the experience of the French revolution, the converted debt [in Italy] was accounted for in the ‘Great Book of Public Debt’.

2. U.S. In plural (usually with capital initials). The body of literary works traditionally regarded as the most important or significant in (esp. Western) literature; the canon (canon n.¹ Additions a); frequently attributive, designating a curriculum, etc., emphasizing the study of these works.The formal study of the Great Books is associated with courses established in c1920 at Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

ΚΠ

1920 Classical Jrnl. 16 62 We shall yet have the courage and the wisdom to treat the great books such as Thucydides, the Ethics and Politics of Aristotle, Plato's Republic, the Letters of Cicero, as containing the ultimate, living problems of society from which we cannot escape.

1945 Chicago Sunday Tribune 8 July iii. 1/8 He intends continuing school and may take the Great Books course.

1992 N. Postman Technopoly xi. 186 It is..obvious that the knowledge explosion has blown apart the feasibility of such limited but coordinated curriculums as, for example, a Great Books program.

2004 N.Y. Mag. 6 Sept. 58/3 Bloom's attack on relativism and multiculturalism and his defense of the Great Books were bitterly condemned as racist, sexist, Eurocentric, and elitist.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	great book
释义	great bookn. Brit. /ˌɡreɪt ˈbʊk/, U.S. /ˌɡreɪt ˈbʊk/ Forms: see great adj., n., adv., and int. and book n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: great adj., book n. Etymology: < great adj. + book n. In sense 1b after French grand livre (1678 or earlier in sense ‘ledger’, 1793 in Grand Livre de la Dette Publique). Now historical. 1. a. A book of financial accounts, a ledger. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > ledger ledger-book1553 ledger1588 great book1621 post-book1714 general ledger1732 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. sig. Dd.iiij When the caterpillor hath once cropped the leaffe and deuowred the boodd, the tree doth not only die and perish with infamye, but the remembrance of such stocke and frute remeines in the recordes of reproche to the opening of the greate booke of general accompt.] 1621 Lawes E. India Co. ccv. 44 They may bee reviewed by the Auditors, and after, entred orderly by the Accomptants into the Companies great Bookes. 1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 38 In the posting of the same into his great Book, or Leidger, the Forreign Coynes must be duely exprest. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Book-Keeping Ledger, or Great Book..is a huge Volume, usually rul'd into Six Columns. 1787 tr. S. Stevin in W. Combe Anderson's Hist. Origin Commerce (rev. ed.) II. 131 One side of the ancient Romans great book (or ledger) served for a debit-side, and the other for a credit-side. 1857 L. C. Cumming tr. G. Freytag Debit & Credit I. xv. 175 When Liebold enters his figures in the great book, and admires their fair caligraphical [sic] procession, he silently smiles with delight. 1905 J. R. Fogo in R. Brown Hist. Accounting & Accountants i. vi. 170 Has not an American arisen who throws the ledger—the ‘Great Book’ of his fathers—to the winds and substitutes a drawer full of loose sheets? 1994 F. Gies & J. Gies Cathedral, Forge, & Waterwheel (1995) vi. 184 Daily receipts and expenses were entered in a rough copybook, eventually to be transferred to a more systematic ‘great book’. b. spec. A ledger containing a list of the creditors of some continental European states, originally that instituted in France in 1793. Usually more fully great book of (the) public debt. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > specific Great Roll1397 pell1434 red book?1445 pipe1461 the Black Book of the Exchequer1592 pipe roll1612 great book1794 scoreboard1823 1794 R. Heron Information Powers at War 165 The national debts entered in the Great Book, amount to more than six thousand millions. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 54 Inscriptions on the Great Book of the French National Debt cannot be attached. 1809 Literary Panorama 5 1288 The Councillors of State have presented to the Legislative Body the plan of a great book of the public debt, to be introduced into this country [sc. Holland] . 1866 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs (39th U.S. Congress) III. 93 A duplicate of the great book of public debt is deposited with the [Belgian] court of accounts. 1909 Outlook 17 July 631/2 The Pope is guaranteed a perpetual annuity of over $600,000, which is entered every year, free of all tax, in the Great Book of the public debt. 1922 tr. Constit. Belgium Art. 47, in New Larned Hist. II. 967/1 A supplementary vote is conferred on each citizen who fulfills one of the following conditions:..2. To..be owner:..of an inscription in the great book of the public debt, [etc.]. 1965 New Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1995) IX. x. 291 A third of each government bond, the tiers consolidé, remained inscribed in the great book of the public debt. 1998 N. Sartor in A. J. Auerbach et al. Generational Accounting around World (1999) xiii. 300 (note) Following the experience of the French revolution, the converted debt [in Italy] was accounted for in the ‘Great Book of Public Debt’. 2. U.S. In plural (usually with capital initials). The body of literary works traditionally regarded as the most important or significant in (esp. Western) literature; the canon (canon n.¹ Additions a); frequently attributive, designating a curriculum, etc., emphasizing the study of these works.The formal study of the Great Books is associated with courses established in c1920 at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. ΚΠ 1920 Classical Jrnl. 16 62 We shall yet have the courage and the wisdom to treat the great books such as Thucydides, the Ethics and Politics of Aristotle, Plato's Republic, the Letters of Cicero, as containing the ultimate, living problems of society from which we cannot escape. 1945 Chicago Sunday Tribune 8 July iii. 1/8 He intends continuing school and may take the Great Books course. 1992 N. Postman Technopoly xi. 186 It is..obvious that the knowledge explosion has blown apart the feasibility of such limited but coordinated curriculums as, for example, a Great Books program. 2004 N.Y. Mag. 6 Sept. 58/3 Bloom's attack on relativism and multiculturalism and his defense of the Great Books were bitterly condemned as racist, sexist, Eurocentric, and elitist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1621
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