| 单词 | reckoning day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreckoning day reckoning day n. (a) = day of reckoning n. at sense 1c; (b) a day on which accounts are settled or debts paid. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ending of existence > the last judgement > day of judgement last dayc1275 day of doom1340 Great Dayc1350 the last time?1505 day of reckoning1547 accounting day1549 doomsday1578 reckoning day1581 day of accounting1666 1581 R. Parsons Discouerie I. Nicols sig. f.vi There will come a reconing day, and a iudge to strike with an yron rodd. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 163 However thou mayest think of thy self, when the reckoning day shall come, thou wilt have laid to thy charge, that thou art a Theif [sic] and a Robber. View more context for this quotation 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lii. 34 Ah! Spain! how sad will be thy reckoning-day. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xvii. 218 I may yet find a reckoning day for him. 1888 W. E. Nicholson Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Reckoning-day, the day on which the workmen receive their pay-notes or cheques from the overman. 1986 E. G. Holland Coniston Copper (BNC) 76 An unskilled man taken on in such a partnership, might easily find himself with the smallest share on reckoning day, which was usually at the end of a two month term. 1998 Early Sci. & Med. 3 126 At New College, the copy listed for the theological faculty is priced, which indicates that it circulated, the price listed being the sum the fellow to whom it had been distributed would have to pay if he did not bring it back on reckoning day. < as lemmas |
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