| 单词 |
ledger-book |
| 释义 |
ˈledger-book Now Hist.
(Forms: see ledger.)
A book containing records; a register; a cartulary; a book of accounts; = ledger 1 b, c, d.
1553Edw. VI Let. to Ridley in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. xxii. 421 To subscribe the same [articles] in one ledger-book to be formed for that purpose. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 96 All which particulars doe most evidently appeare out of certaine auncient Ligier bookes of the R. W. Sir William Locke Mercer of London. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xxiii. 305 The Liger booke of the Monastery of Peterborow. 1643Prynne Open. Gt. Seal 1 Sundry ancient Charters of our English Saxon Kings, yet extant in old Leger Books of Abbeys. c1645Howell Lett. (1688) IV. 484 When I look over my leger Book of accounts, I do not find that God-Almighty is indebted to me one Penny. 1659― Lex. Tetragl., Proverbs To the knowingest kind of Philologers, Touching the Method of perusing these Proverbs or Adages..the Reder shall do well to have his Leger-Book about him when he falls upon Them, to Register therein such that Quadrat with his Conceit and Genius. 1665Wood Life 27 May, The registers leiger-books and statutes of Oryell College. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Book, Every transaction must be entered in the ledger-book, with a balance of debt and credit. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy III. x, The ledger-book of the church of Rochester. c1820S. Rogers Italy (1839) 100 Among the debtors in his leger⁓book Entered in full.
fig.1599Sir J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 47 Such formes as she doth cease to see To Memories large volume she commends. This Lidger Booke lyes in the braine behind. |
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