单词 | muster roll |
释义 | muster rolln. Now chiefly historical. 1. a. A comprehensive list of names, items, etc. Also figurative.In later use often coloured by the military use (sense 1b). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] tableOE scorec1325 billa1340 calendar?a1400 legendc1400 librarya1450 Ragmanc1450 Ragman rollc1450 cataloguea1464 repertory1542 scrowa1545 bedroll?1552 roll1565 file1566 state1582 inventory1589 brief1600 series1601 counter-roll1603 list1604 muster roll1605 cense1615 pinax1625 repertoirec1626 diagram1631 recensiona1638 repertorium1667 vocabulary1694 albe1697 enumeration1725 screed1748 album1753 tableau1792 roll-call1833 shopping list1923 laundry list1958 remainder list1977 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Qq1 It may bee thought I seeke to make a greate Muster-Rowle of Sciences. View more context for this quotation 1689 B. Keach Distressed Sion Relieved 54 'Tis rank'd as chief..In those black Muster-Rolls God does Record, Of grand offences. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 8 Tho' but, perhaps, a muster-roll of Names. 1788 J. Ledyard Jrnl. in Journey through Russia (1966) 199 Like a Soldier he has wrote a kind of Muster Roll of his Country men. 1831 T. Hood Playing at Soldiers vi Ah me! my retrospective soul! As over memory's muster-roll I cast my eyes anew. 1859 J. Bright Speeches 38 One of the brightest names in the muster roll of English worthies. 1918 Stars & Stripes 29 Mar. 2/4 Ball game staged within Hun range... To make the story perfectly military and everything, here are the figures and the muster rolls of the opposing nines. 2001 Hindu (Nexis) 25 Mar. We want the muster rolls to be in the hands of women. We do the work anyway, in the fields and at home. b. spec. An official list of the soldiers in an army or some particular division of it, or of the sailors in a ship's company, convicts in a penal colony, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > muster-roll or -list muster1565 muster-book1565 list1604 muster roll1608 muster filea1616 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > list of register1695 muster1748 muster roll1809 1608 R. Johnson Hist. Seuen Champions Christendome (new ed.) xiiii. 127 No sooner ariued their Legions vpon the plaines of Algernos..but the King of Hungarie caused their muster Rolles to bee publikely read, and iustly numbred. 1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 143 They are likewise to present unto the House some fit way for a perfect Muster-Roll to be made of the King's Army. 1673 Articles & Rules for better Govt. of H.M. Forces xli No Man shall presume to present himself to the Muster, to be Inrolled in the Muster-Rolls, by a counterfeit or wrong Name. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ¶4 He shews the Muster-Roll, which confirms that he was in his Imperial Majesty's Troops. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 47 Inscribed on the muster-roll of their numerous armies. 1809 St. Papers in Ann. Reg. 757/2 If such a vessel is not provided with a muster-roll of the crew. 1822 J. T. Bigge Rep. State Colony New S. Wales 15 The lieutenant-governor's secretary proceeds on board the convict ships..and makes a list or muster-roll of the convicts. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lxiv. 308 He was obliged to fill up the muster-rolls with boys of sixteen. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Muster-roll, a document kept by the master of every British vessel, specifying the name, age, quality, and country of every person of the ship's company. 1888 E. H. Plumptre Life Thomas Ken I. 162 It was believed..that pay was drawn for the troops on the strength of false muster rolls. 1900 Congress. Rec. 22 Jan. 1033/2 An examination of the muster rolls discloses the fact that not a member of the legislature which submitted the proposed amendment participated in that struggle. 1981 N. Currer-Briggs Debrett's Guide to Tracing Ancestry (1984) ix. 120 You can look up the ship's Muster Rolls when he was serving as a Midshipman or as an Able Seaman to seek his place of birth. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness i. iv. 100 Of the 170 men still on his muster-roll another thirty-eight had deserted. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [noun] > reading aloud of names call1606 absence1753 mustering1769 bill1814 muster roll1834 call-over1863 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. i. 18 Having waited the usual hour before the governor's house, to answer to our muster roll, and to be stared at, we were dismissed. 1869 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 86 And only ten of the Nancy's men Said ‘Here!’ to the muster roll. 1899 F. W. O. Ward Eng. Roses 395 I hear the muster-roll of names With mine so fitly blent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1605 |
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