单词 | copybook |
释义 | copybookn.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book journal1540 bankers' book1585 shop book?1594 waste-book1613 cash-book1622 counter-book1622 pay-book1622 copybook1660 audit-booka1680 bankbook1682 transfer-book1694 malt-book1710 pay list1757 petty cash book1827 passbook1833 stock book1835 guard book1839 tommy book1841 bought-book1849 in-clearing book1872 out-clearing book1882 out-book1884 trial-book1890 1660 T. Willsford Debitor & Creditor in Scales Commerce & Trade 206 Books usually kept in great Merchants Accounts... A Copy-book of charges at home, or Forreign accounts..with a breviate of Receipts or Acquittances. 1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Fvii The Thresorers accompt-booke and the Thresorers privat Coppie-booke all made in..time, for the Audite. 2. a. A book in which copies are written or printed for pupils to imitate. to blot one's copybook (colloquial): to commit a fault, misdemeanour or gaffe which spoils one's record. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun] > school book schoolbook1581 copybook1598 task-book1624 class book1788 cram-book1858 workbook1873 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)] > embarrassingly mistread1597 to blot one's copybook1935 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 42 Faire as a text B in a Coppie booke . View more context for this quotation 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 30 Insteede of setting of copies..let euery one haue a little copie booke fastened to the top of his writing booke. 1657 Cocker (title) A Copy Book of Fair Writing. 1763 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1752 (Royal Soc.) 52 510 Another part of the same flash..tore and dispersed the copy-books of the scholars. 1885 J. Payn Talk of Town I. 41 Words of wisdom, but..cut and dried, like proverbs from a copy-book. 1893 Mod. Vere Foster's Drawing Copy-books. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night v. 85 Now, it was the College that had blotted its copy-book and had called her in as one calls in a specialist. 1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 243/1 Its Founder..had badly blotted his copybook by making a speech in favour of the beheaded Earl of Essex. b. attributive. Applied allusively to maxims of a conventional or commonplace character; more widely, to processes, action, or conduct of an exemplary kind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [adjective] > trite, well-worn worn1569 seta1616 well-worn1621 copybook1848 overdriven1888 tired1951 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > perfect finea1300 perfecta1398 crownedc1405 absolute?a1425 obsolute1522 quintessential1551 absolentc1560 fashionate1593 omniperfect1678 quadriform1679 exemplary1709 perfick1771 puffick1858 twenty-twenty1875 copybook1908 perfecto1941 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. ix. 124 A few copy-book headings about benevolence, and industry, and independence. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow I. i. 4 Well provided with stores of copy-book morality. 1886 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts (ed. 58) 28 It is easy to recite copy-book maxims against its [vanity's] sinfulness. 1908 Daily Chron. 16 Jan. 8/5 ‘A fine copy-book hand to be sure’... ‘Yes; and a fine copy-book mind behind it.’ 1927 Times 3 May 7/2 Twice in succession he drove Mr. Cameron to the boundary past mid-off with copybook strokes. 1947 G. Greene 19 Stories 138 She had the kind of copybook psychological sense you often find in nuns. 1957 Times 15 Mar. 10/4 The aircraft made a perfectly normal and very good copybook approach. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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