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Doomsday Book   /dˈumzdˌeɪ bʊk/   Listen
noun
Domesday  n.  A day of judgment. See Doomsday. (Obs.)
Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. (Written also Doomsday Book)


Doomsday  n.  
1.
A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My body's doomsday."
2.
The day of the final judgment. "I could not tell till doomsday."
Doomsday Book. See Domesday Book.





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"Doomsday book" Quotes from Famous Books



... In Doomsday Book, Hawarden appears as a Lordship, with a church, two ploughlands—half of one belonging to the church—half an acre of meadow, a wood two leagues long and half a league broad. The whole was valued at 40 shillings; yet ...
— The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book - Revised Edition, 1890 • William Henry Gladstone
... mentioned in Doomsday Book under the name of Hermoderwode, and in ancient deeds of the Exchequer as Hermoderworth. It is called Hamersmith in the Court Rolls of the beginning of Henry VII.'s reign. This is evidently more correct ...
— Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton
... were known as Domesday or Doomsday Book. The English people said this name was given to it, because, like the Day of Doom, it spared no one. It recorded every piece of property and every particular concerning it. As the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" (S46) indignantly declared, "not a rood of land, not a peasant's hut, not an ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery
... fatal volume. I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday Book—I am clear it has been ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... Greie as the morne before the ruddie flame 415 Of Phoebus charyotte rollynge thro the skie, Greie as the steel-horn'd goats Conyan made tame, So greie appeard her featly sparklyng eye; Those eyne, that did oft mickle pleased look On Adhelm valyaunt man, the virtues doomsday book. 420 ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton


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