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."
... 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
... fatal volume. I have heard of a thing they call Doomsday Book—I am clear it has been ... — Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... 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
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