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Domesday|ˈdəʊmzdeɪ, ˈduːmzdeɪ|
[f. dómes genitive of dóm doom + day.]
A Middle English spelling of doomsday, day of judgement, now commonly used as a historical term, in the following:
Domesday Book, colloquially Domesday: the name applied, from the 12th c., to the record of the Great Inquisition or Survey of the lands of England, their extent, value, ownership, and liabilities, made by order of William the Conqueror in 1086. Extended to abstracts based upon that record, such as the Exon Domesday.[The name appears to have been derived directly from Domesday the Day of the Last Judgement, and Domesday Book the Book by which all men would be judged. It originated as a popular appellation (see Dial. de Scacc.), given to the Book as being a final and conclusive authority on all matters on which it had to be referred to.] 1178Dial. de Scaccario i. xvi, Hic liber ab indigenis Domesdei nuncupatur, id est, dies judicii per metaphoram: sicut enim districti et terribilis examinis illius novissimi sententia nulla tergiversationis arte valet eludi: sic..sententia ejus [libri] infatuari non potest vel impune declinari. Ob hoc nos eundem librum judiciarium nominavimus. 1485Nottingham Rec. II. 350 Libro de Domesday. a1491J. Ross Hist. Reg. Angl. (1716) 109 Redacta est dicta descriptio in unum volumen..Nomen libri est Domesday. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. cxcvii. 202 An olde boke sometyme in y⊇ Guyldehall of London named Domys daye. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 104 The booke of the generall survey of the Realme, which William the Conquerour caused to bee made..and to be called Domesday, bicause (as Mathew Parise saith) it spared no man, but iudged all men indifferently, as the Lord in that great day will do. 1591― Archeion (1635) 24 The Record of which Survey was then called Doomes-day Book. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 232 In that which we now call Domesday, made and collected under William I. 1656Blount Glossogr., Dooms-day-book..wherein all the ancient Demean Lands in this Nation are registred; It is so called, because upon any difference, the parties received their doom. 1701De Foe True-born Eng. 13 Doomsday Book his Tyranny records. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 49 The compiling of the great survey called domesday-book. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Truth Wks. (Bohn) II. 52 Down goes the flying word on the tablets, and is indelible as Doomsday Book. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. 476 Domesday still sets before us a most minute scale of classes.
b. Transferred to other like documents of standard authority, such as the Domesday of St. Paul's, the record of a survey of the capitular estates in 1181; also fig. and allusively.
1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 271 All-rapacious Usurers conceal Their Doomsday-book from all-consuming heirs. 1749Fielding Tom Jones ix. i, The vast authentic doomsday-book of nature. 1862–5Stanley Jew. Ch. xii. 259 Which has made the latter half of the Book of Joshua..the Domesday Book of the Conquest of Palestine. 1865Navy Docky. Expense Acc. (Blue Book i. 465) Previous to the year 1858–59 the expense accounts of ships and services were transmitted annually from the Dockyards to the Surveyor of the Navy..for recording in the ‘Abstracts of Progress’ or ‘Doomsday Book’ the expenditure incurred on account of each ship. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) III. 300 A Domesday of the conquerors was..drawn up in the ducal hall at Lillebonne, a forerunner of the great Domesday of the conquered. |