单词 | check-roll |
释义 | † check-rolln. Obsolete. 1. = checker-roll n.: a roll or list containing the names, etc., of persons in the service of the sovereign and chargeable to the royal exchequer; used to ‘check’ their payment, performance of duty, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > list of servants > royal check-roll1450 checker-roll1461 1450 J. Gresham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 50 It is seid þat he [sc. King Henry VI] hath do wretyn to alle his men þat be in þe chekroll to awayte on hym atte parlement in þeir best aray. 1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxiv The said Clerkes-Comptrollers shall make for every Quarter in the Yeare, a Roule of Parchment that shall be called the Check-Roll. 1642 W. Bird Mag. of Honour 156 The Check-Roll of the King's honourable houshold [a quot. of Statute 1486, which has Cheker-roll]. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 273. 2. A list of the servants of any large household. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > list of servants check-roll1577 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > servants collectively > of a family or household > roll or list of checker-roll1461 check-roll1577 check1603 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1865/1 His [sc. the Earl of Derby's] famous houskeeping, and .xj. score in checkrol [1587 check roll]. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre v. ii. 165 So shall you..adde to the check-role of your seruants another faithfull Obseruer. 1636 J. Trussell in Ann. Dubrensia sig. B2 This carefull thriving age, In which a Coach, a Foote-boy and a Page, Make up a great mans Check-rowle. 3. figurative. A muster-roll, call-roll; a list whereby persons or things may be checked off as present. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people > for checking presence name bookeOE roll1593 check-roll1599 call-book1663 band-roll1693 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 32 In the checkroule of his Ianissaries. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xviii. 520 To rase out of the publicke checkroll [L. tabulis] of the younger cittizens, the names, etc. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. iii. 496 Arte is but the check-roule and register of the productions vttered..by them [sc. Wits]. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 382 The Hymne of the 3 Children in the furnace, who called al creatures, as by a check-rowle, to the prayses of God. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius War with Vandals ii. 44 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Germanus..mustered the forces, and by the Check Roll of the soldiers names, he found a third part of them to be in Carthage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1450 |
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