| 单词 | domesday of st paul's |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDomesday of St. Paul's 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 figurative and allusively. ΚΠ 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 20 All-rapacious Usurers conceal Their Doomsday book, from all-consuming Heirs. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. i. 307 We have..Doomsday Book,..the vast authentic Book of Nature. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xii. 259 Which has made the latter half of the Book of Joshua..the Domesday Book of the Conquest of Palestine. 1865 Navy Docky. Expense Acc. (Blue Bk. 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. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (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. < as lemmas |
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