Domesday Book

短语

词形变化

Domesday Books 复数 Domesday Books Doomsday Book

别名

Doomsday Book Domesday DB

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One of the volumes of the Domesday Book.

  2. 2.

    A record of any other Norman survey.

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name
  1. 1.

    The Book of Winchester; the principal record of the Domesday survey of England carried out in 1086 for William the Conqueror, comprising of two volumes: the Great Domesday Book and the Little Domesday Book.

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词源

From Middle English Domesdei. According to Dialogus de Scaccario (circa 1180): Hic liber ab indigenis ‘Domesdei’ nuncupatur, id est dies iudicii per metaphoram. Sicut enim districti et terribilis examinis illius nouissimi sententia nulla tergiuersationis arte ualet eludi, sic cum orta fuerit in regno contentio de hiis rebus que illic annotantur, cum uentum fuerit ad librum, sententia eius infatuari non potest uel impune declinari: its decisions were final, as those on doomsday.

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