red bookn.

Brit.

/ˌrɛd ˈbʊk/,

/ˈrɛd bʊk/, U.S.

/ˌrɛd ˈbʊk/,

/ˈrɛd ˌbʊk/

Forms: see red adj. and n. and book n.; frequently with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., book n.

Etymology: < red adj. + book n. Compare post-classical Latin rubeus liber (14th cent. in British sources).

1. (A title given to) any of various official books, usually distinguished by having a red binding, of political, administrative, or economic significance; (in early use) spec. (in full the Red Book of the Exchequer) a manuscript volume compiled in the 13th cent., containing records of the English exchequer, as charters, statutes, surveys, deeds, etc.In quots. 1700, 1818 referring to a book of record of the Irish court of exchequer.

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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun]

Domesday Book1178

registera1325

bookc1405

red book?1445

registery1483

regesture1526

registrya1529

enroll1533

ledger1550

ledger-book1553

registry book1562

by-book1593

regest1670

registrary1696

hall-book1746

blotter1887

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > specific

Great Roll1397

pell1434

red book?1445

pipe1461

the Black Book of the Exchequer1592

pipe roll1612

great book1794

scoreboard1823

?1445–6 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 325 (MED) The lawes and other contentys of the booke called the reed booke of the eschequer.

1456 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 53 (MED) The which acte..a mong othour actes..in the litill Reede booke of Ordinaunce, ys writte and Crossed.

1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 419 All the chauntry preestis whos composicions are enrolled in the rede boke.

1574 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 352 A certifycatt sent downe from London to this cytye as the same appearith in the redd booke.

?1589 G. Owen Let. 29 May in E. M. Pritchard Taylors' Cussion (1906) p. xiii Bundells Indorsedd com' penbr'..which I am promised to have the pervsall of... Also that daye I hadd som pervsall of the Redd booke.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 239 I haue it out of this his Charter, in the red booke of Canterbury.

a1693 Disc. Tenures in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 58 The Red Book in the Checquer.

1699 W. Nicolson Eng. Hist. Libr. (1714) iii. iii. 213 There is also, in the keeping of the King's Remembrancer, an antient Miscellany of several notable Treatises; which Volume is commonly cited, and call'd by the Name of Liber ruber Scaccarii, or Red-Book of the Exchequer.

1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 828 The Copy of this Charter..is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer at Dublin.

a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) X. 287 This register or survey, called by the English The Red Book, or more frequently Doms-day Books.

1800 in Rep. on Ossian (1805) App. 278 He remembers that his father had a book which was called the Red Book,..which..contained a good deal of the history of the Highland Clans.

1818 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 13 Antiquities 181 An antient book of record, called the Red Book of the Exchequer, which is preserved in the office of the chief remembrancer of that court in Ireland.

1896 H. Hall Red Bk. Exchequer (Rolls) I. Pref. 1 The Red Book of the Exchequer belongs to the class of Entry Books usually termed Precedent Books, but more correctly Registers, or Books of Remembrance.

1920 Times 25 Oct. 6/2 Some years ago I persuaded the L.C.C. to issue a red-book of comparative municipal statistics.

1966 Folklore 77 92 At the coronation of Henry's queen, Eleanor of Provence, in 1236, we have references to a sword called Curtana in the Red Book of the Exchequer.

2004 GP (Nexis) 9 Aug. 3 Under the Red Book, pensions were based on income. However, under new GMS, pensionable income is based on NHS profit.

2. A supposed book belonging to the devil and containing the signatures in blood of those who have sealed a contract with him, esp. witches. Now rare.

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1653 E. Bower Dr. Lamb Revived 26 I..desired her to let me see the red Book that the Maid set her hand to, that was written half over with blood (being the names of Witches that had listed themselves under the Devils command.).

1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Hhh2^v/2 Red..a Witche's red Book, a Catalogue of such as have sealed to the Devil with their bloud, la rouge Liste.

1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft v. 78 She being beaten, and threatned, confess'd her self to be the Witch, and said the Devil urged her to sign a Book. Others confess'd their being urged to sign the Book. One said it was a red Book, of a considerable Thickness, and about a Cubit long.

1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Red A witches red book.

1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Jan. 26/1 Goody Bishop haunted her in various airy shapes; brought her the devil's red book for signature.

1891 H. A. Beers Initial Stud. Amer. Lett. i. 24 A little black man, who urged them to inscribe their names in a red book which he carried—a sort of muster-roll of those who had forsworn God's service for the devil's.

1977 W. R. Espy Oysterville x. 125 The charge that you, Mary Esty, blameless for fifty-eight years before the world, had signed your name in the Red Book—had sold yourself body and soul to the devil—had become the word none must speak—a witch.

3. Red Book of Hergest n. [after Welsh Llyfr Coch Hergest (?1572 as Llyver Goch o Hergest, showing unexpected mutation of the adjective; compare earlier Llyvr Hergest (c1550))] a manuscript of the late 14th to early 15th centuries, written in Welsh and containing the Mabinogion and other pieces in prose and poetry.The manuscript was held at Hergest Court (Herefordshire) from the late 15th to the early 17th cent. and has been in the possession of Jesus College, Oxford, since 1701.

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1715–16 in Catal. MSS. Wales in B.M. (1903) 408 Since I perceived Jesus College had an undoubted right to the Red Book of Hergest.

1803 W. O. Pughe Gram. Welsh Lang. Introd. There are many copies in the various collections, particularly in the Red Book of Hergest.

1914 C. S. Baldwin Introd. to Eng. Medieval Lit. (1922) ii. 59 Another familiar collection which still holds its place is Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, translated mainly from the Welsh of the Red Book of Hergest.

2007 Llanelli Star (Nexis) 28 Nov. 1 Based on The Dream of Maxen from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, the tale is set in a land long ago.

4. A register or directory of the British court, nobility, members of the government, and other socially important people; spec. (a name for) the Royal Kalendar, or Complete and Correct Annual Register, an annual directory published from 1767 to 1893, or later (more fully Royal Red Book) the Webster's Royal Red Book, a similar work published from 1847 to 1939. Also occasionally allusively: a source of information about fashionable society. Now historical and rare.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal register

court-calendar1758

red book1762

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > list of holders of state office or pensions

red book1762

blue book1817

1762 J. Wilkes in North Briton 19 June 15 A publication of that kind would be unnecessary, as it would be transcribing almost the whole red book, or the Court and City Register, which is already in every body's hand.

1767 Considerations Dearness Corn & Provisions Ded. sig. A4 As for a patron, I applied to the little red book, in hopes, out of the many there recorded, I might find one; but in vain; for though I thought of this great patriot, and that great financier, &c. yet I was afraid to fix on any one.

1774 G. Colman Man of Business ii. 27 I'll look into the red book—the only book worth looking into—and see if we can't use our interest to get you some little snug sinecure—a commissioner of trade, perhaps, or a lord of the admiralty.

1788 Observer No. 98. ⁋6 He measures his devoirs with an exactitude that bespeaks him a correct interpreter of The Red Book.

1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. 89 We've lost the Court-Guide, Ma'am, but here's the Red Book.

1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 278 Dukes, earls, viscounts, and so on to any extent down the ladder of honour in the Red Book.

1856 M. C. Jackson Story of my Wardship I. v. 73 As I am a stranger here Mr. Compton, will you kindly be a ‘Court Guide’ or ‘Royal Red Book’ and give a ‘local habitation and a name’ to some of the faces and dresses here present?

1888 H. R. Haggard Mr. Meeson's Will xiv He..seized a Red Book, in which he discovered that Lord Holmhurst's..London house was in Hanover Square.

1931 N. Cunard Black Man & White Ladyship 2 They are not found in the Royal Red Book. Some big hostess gives a lead and the trick is done!

1939 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 21 137 These figures are obtained from the annual Royal Kalendar (‘Red Book’) in which the names of members who did not sit in the previous parliament are listed in italics.

5. A book containing the names of all the people benefiting from sinecures and other unearnt payments by the crown in France prior to the Revolution; (by extension) a book detailing those receiving pensions (pension n. 1) from the British crown. Also in further extended use with reference to similar publications in other countries. Now historical and rare. [After French livre rouge (see quot. 1790).]

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1790 (title) The livre rouge, or red book; being a list of secret pensions, paid out of the public treasure of France... Translated from the eighth Paris edition.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. E. India House 93/1 The proprietors of India Stock would soon have a Red-book of their own, which would rise with the Red-book of England.

1810 P. F. McCallum (title) Le Livre Rouge; or, a new and extraordinary Red-Book; containing a list of the Pensions in England, Scotland and Ireland; Together with a View of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Public Money.

1812 W. S. Landor Charles James Fox (1907) Pref. 16 He kisses the King's hand..and shuffles into the House to confirm the greatest sinecure of all, and the most flagrant instance of ungenerous cupidity that any red-book in Europe has unfolded.

1816 (title) Extraordinary Red Book. A list of all places, pensions, sinecures, &c. with the various salaries and emoluments arising therefrom.

1826 B. Hall Voy. to Loo-choo I. i. 26 The Chinese publish at regular intervals a sort of red book, in which the names of all the servants of government are mentioned.

1887 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 201/2 It must have infuriated the friends of the revolutionary party to have such disclosures as the ‘Red Book’ contained trumpeted forth by their own leaders.

1986 G. M. Ditchfield in C. Jones & D. L. Jones Peers, Politics, & Power xvi. 352 Throughout the period, the various Black and Red books put out by radicals to attack..sinecure-holders, are interesting, though not always soundly organized and collated.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red book
释义	red bookn. Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈbʊk/, /ˈrɛd bʊk/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈbʊk/, /ˈrɛd ˌbʊk/ Forms: see red adj. and n. and book n.; frequently with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., book n. Etymology: < red adj. + book n. Compare post-classical Latin rubeus liber (14th cent. in British sources). 1. (A title given to) any of various official books, usually distinguished by having a red binding, of political, administrative, or economic significance; (in early use) spec. (in full the Red Book of the Exchequer) a manuscript volume compiled in the 13th cent., containing records of the English exchequer, as charters, statutes, surveys, deeds, etc.In quots. 1700, 1818 referring to a book of record of the Irish court of exchequer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] Domesday Book1178 registera1325 bookc1405 red book?1445 registery1483 register book1515 regesture1526 registrya1529 enroll1533 ledger1550 ledger-book1553 registry book1562 by-book1593 regest1670 registrary1696 hall-book1746 blotter1887 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > specific Great Roll1397 pell1434 red book?1445 pipe1461 the Black Book of the Exchequer1592 pipe roll1612 great book1794 scoreboard1823 ?1445–6 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 325 (MED) The lawes and other contentys of the booke called the reed booke of the eschequer. 1456 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 53 (MED) The which acte..a mong othour actes..in the litill Reede booke of Ordinaunce, ys writte and Crossed. 1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 419 All the chauntry preestis whos composicions are enrolled in the rede boke. 1574 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 352 A certifycatt sent downe from London to this cytye as the same appearith in the redd booke. ?1589 G. Owen Let. 29 May in E. M. Pritchard Taylors' Cussion (1906) p. xiii Bundells Indorsedd com' penbr'..which I am promised to have the pervsall of... Also that daye I hadd som pervsall of the Redd booke. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 239 I haue it out of this his Charter, in the red booke of Canterbury. a1693 Disc. Tenures in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 58 The Red Book in the Checquer. 1699 W. Nicolson Eng. Hist. Libr. (1714) iii. iii. 213 There is also, in the keeping of the King's Remembrancer, an antient Miscellany of several notable Treatises; which Volume is commonly cited, and call'd by the Name of Liber ruber Scaccarii, or Red-Book of the Exchequer. 1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 828 The Copy of this Charter..is entred in the Red Book of the Exchequer at Dublin. a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) X. 287 This register or survey, called by the English The Red Book, or more frequently Doms-day Books. 1800 in Rep. on Ossian (1805) App. 278 He remembers that his father had a book which was called the Red Book,..which..contained a good deal of the history of the Highland Clans. 1818 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 13 Antiquities 181 An antient book of record, called the Red Book of the Exchequer, which is preserved in the office of the chief remembrancer of that court in Ireland. 1896 H. Hall Red Bk. Exchequer (Rolls) I. Pref. 1 The Red Book of the Exchequer belongs to the class of Entry Books usually termed Precedent Books, but more correctly Registers, or Books of Remembrance. 1920 Times 25 Oct. 6/2 Some years ago I persuaded the L.C.C. to issue a red-book of comparative municipal statistics. 1966 Folklore 77 92 At the coronation of Henry's queen, Eleanor of Provence, in 1236, we have references to a sword called Curtana in the Red Book of the Exchequer. 2004 GP (Nexis) 9 Aug. 3 Under the Red Book, pensions were based on income. However, under new GMS, pensionable income is based on NHS profit. 2. A supposed book belonging to the devil and containing the signatures in blood of those who have sealed a contract with him, esp. witches. Now rare. ΚΠ 1653 E. Bower Dr. Lamb Revived 26 I..desired her to let me see the red Book that the Maid set her hand to, that was written half over with blood (being the names of Witches that had listed themselves under the Devils command.). 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Hhh2^v/2 Red..a Witche's red Book, a Catalogue of such as have sealed to the Devil with their bloud, la rouge Liste. 1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft v. 78 She being beaten, and threatned, confess'd her self to be the Witch, and said the Devil urged her to sign a Book. Others confess'd their being urged to sign the Book. One said it was a red Book, of a considerable Thickness, and about a Cubit long. 1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Red A witches red book. 1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Jan. 26/1 Goody Bishop haunted her in various airy shapes; brought her the devil's red book for signature. 1891 H. A. Beers Initial Stud. Amer. Lett. i. 24 A little black man, who urged them to inscribe their names in a red book which he carried—a sort of muster-roll of those who had forsworn God's service for the devil's. 1977 W. R. Espy Oysterville x. 125 The charge that you, Mary Esty, blameless for fifty-eight years before the world, had signed your name in the Red Book—had sold yourself body and soul to the devil—had become the word none must speak—a witch. 3. Red Book of Hergest n. [after Welsh Llyfr Coch Hergest (?1572 as Llyver Goch o Hergest, showing unexpected mutation of the adjective; compare earlier Llyvr Hergest (c1550))] a manuscript of the late 14th to early 15th centuries, written in Welsh and containing the Mabinogion and other pieces in prose and poetry.The manuscript was held at Hergest Court (Herefordshire) from the late 15th to the early 17th cent. and has been in the possession of Jesus College, Oxford, since 1701. ΚΠ 1715–16 in Catal. MSS. Wales in B.M. (1903) 408 Since I perceived Jesus College had an undoubted right to the Red Book of Hergest. 1803 W. O. Pughe Gram. Welsh Lang. Introd. There are many copies in the various collections, particularly in the Red Book of Hergest. 1914 C. S. Baldwin Introd. to Eng. Medieval Lit. (1922) ii. 59 Another familiar collection which still holds its place is Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, translated mainly from the Welsh of the Red Book of Hergest. 2007 Llanelli Star (Nexis) 28 Nov. 1 Based on The Dream of Maxen from the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, the tale is set in a land long ago. 4. A register or directory of the British court, nobility, members of the government, and other socially important people; spec. (a name for) the Royal Kalendar, or Complete and Correct Annual Register, an annual directory published from 1767 to 1893, or later (more fully Royal Red Book) the Webster's Royal Red Book, a similar work published from 1847 to 1939. Also occasionally allusively: a source of information about fashionable society. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal register court-calendar1758 red book1762 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > list of holders of state office or pensions red book1762 blue book1817 1762 J. Wilkes in North Briton 19 June 15 A publication of that kind would be unnecessary, as it would be transcribing almost the whole red book, or the Court and City Register, which is already in every body's hand. 1767 Considerations Dearness Corn & Provisions Ded. sig. A4 As for a patron, I applied to the little red book, in hopes, out of the many there recorded, I might find one; but in vain; for though I thought of this great patriot, and that great financier, &c. yet I was afraid to fix on any one. 1774 G. Colman Man of Business ii. 27 I'll look into the red book—the only book worth looking into—and see if we can't use our interest to get you some little snug sinecure—a commissioner of trade, perhaps, or a lord of the admiralty. 1788 Observer No. 98. ⁋6 He measures his devoirs with an exactitude that bespeaks him a correct interpreter of The Red Book. 1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. 89 We've lost the Court-Guide, Ma'am, but here's the Red Book. 1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 278 Dukes, earls, viscounts, and so on to any extent down the ladder of honour in the Red Book. 1856 M. C. Jackson Story of my Wardship I. v. 73 As I am a stranger here Mr. Compton, will you kindly be a ‘Court Guide’ or ‘Royal Red Book’ and give a ‘local habitation and a name’ to some of the faces and dresses here present? 1888 H. R. Haggard Mr. Meeson's Will xiv He..seized a Red Book, in which he discovered that Lord Holmhurst's..London house was in Hanover Square. 1931 N. Cunard Black Man & White Ladyship 2 They are not found in the Royal Red Book. Some big hostess gives a lead and the trick is done! 1939 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 21 137 These figures are obtained from the annual Royal Kalendar (‘Red Book’) in which the names of members who did not sit in the previous parliament are listed in italics. 5. A book containing the names of all the people benefiting from sinecures and other unearnt payments by the crown in France prior to the Revolution; (by extension) a book detailing those receiving pensions (pension n. 1) from the British crown. Also in further extended use with reference to similar publications in other countries. Now historical and rare. [After French livre rouge (see quot. 1790).] ΚΠ 1790 (title) The livre rouge, or red book; being a list of secret pensions, paid out of the public treasure of France... Translated from the eighth Paris edition. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. E. India House 93/1 The proprietors of India Stock would soon have a Red-book of their own, which would rise with the Red-book of England. 1810 P. F. McCallum (title) Le Livre Rouge; or, a new and extraordinary Red-Book; containing a list of the Pensions in England, Scotland and Ireland; Together with a View of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Public Money. 1812 W. S. Landor Charles James Fox (1907) Pref. 16 He kisses the King's hand..and shuffles into the House to confirm the greatest sinecure of all, and the most flagrant instance of ungenerous cupidity that any red-book in Europe has unfolded. 1816 (title) Extraordinary Red Book. A list of all places, pensions, sinecures, &c. with the various salaries and emoluments arising therefrom. 1826 B. Hall Voy. to Loo-choo I. i. 26 The Chinese publish at regular intervals a sort of red book, in which the names of all the servants of government are mentioned. 1887 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 201/2 It must have infuriated the friends of the revolutionary party to have such disclosures as the ‘Red Book’ contained trumpeted forth by their own leaders. 1986 G. M. Ditchfield in C. Jones & D. L. Jones Peers, Politics, & Power xvi. 352 Throughout the period, the various Black and Red books put out by radicals to attack..sinecure-holders, are interesting, though not always soundly organized and collated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1445
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