| 单词 | blood-book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood-book blood-book n. [after German Blutbuch (1593–4)] (a) German History a book in which the names and confessions of criminals convicted of capital offences were recorded; (b) a book containing violent or sensational material, a blood-and-thunder book; cf. sense 23 (now historical). ΚΠ 1837 T. Keightley Secret Societies Middle Ages 369 Should the sentence passed be a capital one..the name of the criminal was entered in the blood-book. 1894 Daily News 29 May 6/4 ‘Blood and thunder books’;..‘blood books’—brief and brutal—is the expression in general use. 1965 T. A. Cullen When London walked in Terror xiv. 205 [The morning after Jack the Ripper killing] hoarse-voiced vendors threaded their way through the crowd brandishing crimson covered pamphlets, which they identified as, ‘The Whitechapel Blood Book—only a penny!’ 2001 U. Rublack Crimes Women in Early Mod. Germany App. 262 In Esslingen so-called ‘blood-books’, recording the confessions of tried offenders, are preserved for both centuries, but almost all trial records..are missing. < as lemmas |
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