单词 | buttery book |
释义 | > as lemmasbuttery book buttery book n. now historical (at certain universities, esp. Oxford and Cambridge) a book in which the names of the members of a college are entered and a record kept of the money each owes to the buttery.At Oxford and Cambridge buttery books served as proof that a student had been resident in college for the requisite number of days each term. A cross against a student's name in the buttery meant that he was unable to receive food or prove that he had been resident in college on that day (see cross v. 4b). ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > accounts buttery book1583 battel1706 gate-bill1803 1583 W. Stoughton Abstr. Certain Acts Parl. 233 Since the departure of which man, if the Audite or butterie bookes of that house were sought, you shall finde hir schollers names, written alwayes in the latter ende of the booke. a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 34 Munday he was entred into the buttery-book..by Mr. Edw. Copley, fellow of that house. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 19. ⁋2 There are of the Middle-Temple, including all in the Buttery Books, and in the Lists of the House, 5000. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xxxix. 214 The Master of the college sent his servitor to the buttery-book to sconce him five shillings. 1832 Dr. Hall in J. Boswell Life S. Johnson (new ed.) I. 46 (note) Weekly account in the buttery books. 1934 Mod. Lang. Notes 49 328 This John Dryden was admitted fellow in January, and stricken from the college Buttery Book after the revolution. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Apr. 43/1 The college's Buttery Books—ledgers in which weekly charges for food and drink were recorded—survive for much of this period. < as lemmas |
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