| 单词 | reckoning tablet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreckoning tablet C1. attributive, with sense ‘of or relating to reckoning, used in or for reckoning’, as reckoning book, †reckoning chamber, reckoning tablet. ΚΠ 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Rationarius codex,..a reckenyng booke. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Register, kalender, a reckoning booke. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (at cited word) A reckoning chamber, or a chamber of accounts, een reecken-kamer. 1714 R. North Gentleman Accomptant 97 I have here made the Post from the Reckoning-book to Cash. 1832 Times 18 Feb. 4/3 Mr. Lovat said that the reckoning book had existed for only four years. 1930 T. S. Eliot tr. ‘St.-J. Perse’ Anabasis 67 He who has spread on the ground his reckoning tablets. 1957 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 17 341 There were specialized printed specimens devoted to the moneys of various regions which appeared as early as 1530 or thereabouts in Antwerp, and in Vienna in 1563 (which had progressed to being a reckoning book). 1982 Pop. Music 2 193 The landlords held the destinies of the tenant farmers in their reckoning books. < as lemmas |
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