| 单词 | doombook | 
| 释义 | doombookn. 1.  A book or code of (Old Teutonic) laws; spec. that attributed to King Alfred and referred to in the laws of later West Saxon kings. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > written law > 			[noun]		 > book of laws or statutes doombooka925 law-bookc1175 statute book1558 a925    Laws of Edward Preamble  				[Swa] hit on ðære dom~bec stande. a940    Laws of Athelstan 		(Schmid)	  ii. v  				Bete be ðam ðe seo dom-boc secge. c1000    Ælfric Homilies II. 198  				Oð þæt he com to ðam dom-bocum ðe se Heofenlica Wealdend his folce gesette. 1660    R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 159 in  Justice Vindicated  				If any one shall not pay, let him incur the punishment expressed in the Doom-book (Laws of K. Eadgar). 1765    W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 66  				A new edition, or fresh promulgation, of Alfred's code or dome-book. 1891    J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 218  				The records..exist in the Doomsbooks..of this country and other lands in the north of Europe.  2.  transferred. A book of doom or judgement. ΚΠ 1837    T. Carlyle French Revol. I.  ii. viii. 83  				Cursed is that trade;..and is verily marked in the Doom-Book of a God. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < | 
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