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单词 death bill
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death bill
death bill n. (a) a list of those who have died; spec. (Christian Church) a list of dead to be prayed for; (b) a legislative bill relating to capital punishment.
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1745 S. Bolton Miege's Present State Great Brit. & Ireland (ed. 10) i. ix. 100 They who computed the Inhabitants to be a Million in Queen Ann's Time, greatly mistook the Matter; for the Death Bills then were eight Thousand short of what they are now.
1812 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 22 972/1 When a proposal is made to emancipate or relieve, you..deliberate for years..; but a death-bill must be passed off hand.
1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers II. 383 (note) Abp. Lanfranc..allotted the office of drawing up and sending off these death-bills to the precentor.
1915 Cent. Mag. Dec. 1440 Some of the deathbills give stories of conversions which are interesting and even dramatic.
1973 Jet 15 Mar. 20/1 Johnson..had killed a senate sponsored death bill when it appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
2001 D. A. Brading Mexican Phoenix vi. 120 When the death bills were finally counted, it was found that 40,157 individuals had died during the months when the epidemic haunted the city.
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