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Domesday Book en · NOUN
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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(plural-normally) One of the volumes of the Domesday Book.
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(figuratively) A record of any other Norman survey.
Forms
Domesday Book en · PROPN
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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(historical) 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.
Forms
Deriveds
Domesday circuit · Domesday · Domesday survey · Little Domesday Book · Great Domesday Book · Winton Domesday · Exon Domesday
Relateds
Boldon Book
Synonyms
Exchequer Domesday · Liber de Wintonia · Book of Winchester
Translations (14)
la Rotulus Wintoniae (Book of Winchester) · la Liber Censualis (Book of Winchester) · la Liber Regis (Book of Winchester) · la Angliae Notitia et Lustratio (Book of Winchester) · mk Кни́га на Стра́шниот суд (Book of Winchester) · la Liber de Thesauro (Book of Winchester) · mk Кни́га на Су́дниот ден (Book of Winchester) · la Censualis Angliae (Book of Winchester) · la Liber de Wintonia (Book of Winchester) · la Scriptura Thesauri Regis (Book of Winchester) · la Rotulus Regis (Book of Winchester) · la Liber Judiciarius (Book of Winchester) · et William Vallutaja maakataster (Book of Winchester) · la Liber Judicarius (Book of Winchester)