| 单词 | newgate calendar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNewgate Calendar Newgate Calendar n. now historical (originally) a list of those admitted to Newgate prison in the preceding month; (later) any of a series of publications containing biographical information about those detained in Newgate, or (in some cases) stories of crimes associated with the prison. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers Domesday Book1178 register1426 white bookc1432 town booka1547 christening book1558 muster1565 minute-book1566 Domes-booke1610 Newgate Calendar1686 time book1786 press book1808 provision book1840 visitors' book1846 guestbook1849 poison book1870 poison register1894 war diary1917 sign-in1966 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > specific prisons > list of prisoners in Newgate Newgate Calendar1686 1686 H. Higden Mod. Ess. 13th Satyr Juvenal 31 Examples of all Crimes appear In ev'ry Newgate-Calendar. c1773 (title) The Newgate calendar or, Malefactors Bloody Register. Containing genuine and circumstantial narratives of the lives and transactions, various exploits and dying speeches of the most notorious criminals of both sexes. 1836 Wilson's Hist. Tales Borders II. 5/1 That extraordinary record of human vice and suffering, ‘The Newgate Calendar’. 1929 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 37 83 Place..declared..that he had been accused..of every crime in the Newgate Calendar except assassination. 1992 Hist. & Theory 31 159 When she read about them [sc. the Ratcliffe Highway murders] in the Newgate Calendar, it seemed to her that ‘there was a great deal of doubt about this whole crime.’ < as lemmas |
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