英语词汇“in the mercer's book”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†2. in the mercer's book and variants: (esp. of a gentleman or gallant) in debt. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > proverbially

in the mercer's book1591

pound of flesh1787

1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication sig. D1^v Diuers young Gentlemen shall creepe further into the Mercers Booke in a Moneth, then they can get out in a yere.

1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly To Gent. Stud. sig. A4 Such wags as..haue marched in the Mercers booke to please their Mistris eye with their brauerie.

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3^v Crisp. How many yards of Veluet dost thou thinke they conteyne? Horace... Faith Sir, your Mercers booke Will tell you with more patience, then I can.

1675 Char. Town-gallant 4 Thence he posted to one of the Inns of Court, but..never read six Lines in Littleton,..& was more in his Mercers Books than in Cocks, or Plowdens.

单词	in the mercer's book
释义	> as lemmas in the mercer's book †2. in the mercer's book and variants: (esp. of a gentleman or gallant) in debt. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > proverbially in the mercer's book1591 pound of flesh1787 1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication sig. D1^v Diuers young Gentlemen shall creepe further into the Mercers Booke in a Moneth, then they can get out in a yere. 1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly To Gent. Stud. sig. A4 Such wags as..haue marched in the Mercers booke to please their Mistris eye with their brauerie. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3^v Crisp. How many yards of Veluet dost thou thinke they conteyne? Horace... Faith Sir, your Mercers booke Will tell you with more patience, then I can. 1675 Char. Town-gallant 4 Thence he posted to one of the Inns of Court, but..never read six Lines in Littleton,..& was more in his Mercers Books than in Cocks, or Plowdens. extracted from mercern. < as lemmas
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