单词 | after-reckoning |
释义 | after-reckoningn. Now rare. A later or subsequent reckoning (in various senses); (in early use esp.) the Last Judgement. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > subsequent after-reckoning1567 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse world's endeOE dayOE doomsdayc975 world-endOE 'pocalypseOE last dayc1275 judgementa1325 assize1340 Great Dayc1350 accounta1400 day of retributiona1400 latter day1533 Judgement Day1544 audit1548 after-reckoning1567 revelation-day1654 Fifth monarchy1655 long account1665 account day1671 kingdom come1858 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 eschaton1935 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > an account or reckoning > subsequent rere-account1486 after-reckoning1567 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast ii. xi. f. 135 One of M. Iewels prety knackes, worthy to be added for an after reckoning to such as M. D. Harding, D. Sanders. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie l. 300/2 Yet must ye come (to an after-reckoning) before the heauenly Iudge: for men bee not competent iudges to giue sentence of that matter. 1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case iv. ii. 566 I could never away with after reckonings. 1649 E. Marbury Obadiah 141 We come to the after reckoning in the day of judgement. 1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 58 Such effects..are too often paid for by an after-reckoning. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 122 Charles..was determin'd to settle accounts in a manner that should cut off all after-reckonings. 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 48 No rules to confine, no after-reckonings to terrify. a1843 R. Southey Oliver Newman (1845) iv. 34 Sure that no after-reckoning will arise, Of shame, or sorrow. 1850 I. Williams Seven Days iii. 130 A wheel..whose guiding source No after-reckoning knows and no remorse. 1870 J. Rhoades Poems 164 All this is no such matter A man should fear the loss of, who thereby Cuts short the awful after-reckoning. 1909 25th Ann. Rep. Michigan Dairymen's Assoc. 519 It is a safer proposition for a merchant to sell good goods than to sell poor goods, because there is no after reckoning. 1965 Tulane Drama Rev. 9 118 The present-day performances disappoint in the after-reckoning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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