| 单词 | casebook | 
| 释义 | casebookn. 1.  A book containing records of legal, medical, or other cases. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > 			[noun]		 > record of medical cases casebook1675 casuistry1883 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > 			[noun]		 > a case before court > book of legal cases casebook1675 cause-book1885 1675    in  A. Grey Deb. House of Commons 		(1763)	 III. 246  				All this is but an abstract of a Case-Book, (of Lord Holles, written, as is said, by him). 1762    G. Canning Horace's 1st Satire Modernized 27  				Now adieu, my friend Jacob—I'll close up my case-book. 1768    E. Foster Ess. on Hospitals  iii. viii. 63  				The Necessity of Clerks, to the Physicians, and Surgeons, must certainly appear, if the Uses of the Case-books, before mentioned, are allowed. 1825    Lancet 20 Aug. 208/1  				I have read the dispute about the Case Books of St. George's Hospital in the late Numbers of The Lancet. 1862    J. H. Burton Book-hunter  ii. 129  				I know not whether ‘lay gents’..can feel any pleasure in wandering over the case-books. 1927    A. Conan Doyle 		(title)	  				The case-book of Sherlock Holmes. 1949    E. Coxhead Wind in West iv. 102  				Let somebody present them with..a case-book page and..they all thought fit to take offence. 1953    Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 19 129  				This paper is a small selection from our ‘case-book’ in the Department of Environmental Archaeology. 1991    Time Out 13 Mar. 15/1  				Marshall has been criticised for giving Sacks's medical casebook Hollywood's sentimental, saccharine treatment.  2.  Education (originally U.S. Law). A book containing records of legal cases, used to teach law by the induction of principles from cases (as opposed to the lecture or hornbook method). Hence more generally: a book containing a selection of materials or examples, used as a reference work in studying or teaching a particular subject. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > 			[noun]		 > for reference and study manual1843 casebook1854 1854    Law Mag. 51 240  				This new species of case-book, carefully arranged, so as to illustrate Blackstone. 1899    Nation 8 June 434/1  				At Harvard the method applied to all branches of the English Law was substantially the same, and a casebook was in every instance required. 1903    Amer. Lawyer Aug. 343/2  				Lately a case-book was published in three volumes, costing the student $10.50. 1963    F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 112  				Like the casebooks now devoted to Catcher in the Rye and to Mark Twain's Wound, this one constitutes a monument of general critical esteem for its subject. 1985    Amer. Bar Found. Res. Jrnl. 10 943  				Erwin Chemerinsky is unhappy about the way law students are taught professional responsibilities... He recently published..a very critical review of three casebooks that illustrate, in his view, the sad state of the art. 1999    D. E. Mistron 		(title)	  				Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John: a student casebook. 2006    Sarasota 		(Florida)	 Herald-Tribune 		(Nexis)	 1 Oct.  g4  				He worked with a young professor..to prepare a casebook about the Montgomery bus boycotts. Compounds  attributive, chiefly in sense  2, as  casebook example,  casebook method,  casebook system, etc. Cf. case system n. (b) at case n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1892    Amer. Law Reg. 40 421  				Mr. Richards contrasts the treatise or text-book system of instruction with the case-book system, characterizing them as follows: ‘The former method is more synthetic and abstract, the latter more inductive and concrete.’ 1911    Amer. Law School Rev. 3 128/1  				That there is much to be said in favor of the case-book method of teaching law is unquestionable. 1939    F. Rodell Woe unto You, Lawyers! 140  				The ‘casebook method’ of teaching Law is still the vogue in the law schools... In many ways, the old fashioned hornbook method..was more direct..and you could learn more principles faster. 1951    ABA Jrnl. Oct. 758/3  				The manner in which the casebook system of teaching law traces the development of a legal principle from its inception..to its present form makes the law student realize that law is a progressive science. 1977    C. McFadden Serial 		(1978)	 xii. 30/1  				Her own father..was practically a casebook example of an anal retentive. 2004    A. Anderson Adventure of Eng. 110/1  				Some women craved adventure and became spies, soldiers, and medicine pitchwomen. Violet McNeal's life is a casebook study of such an adventuress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < | 
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