Domesday Book

English Alternative forms en Doomsday Book uncommon Etymology From en enm 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. Proper noun ~ Domesday Book en 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. Synonyms en Book of Winchester en Exchequer Domesday en Liber de Wintonia Derived terms en Domesday Domesday circuit Domesday survey Exon Domesday Great Domesday Book Little Domesday Book Winton Domesday Related terms en Boldon Book Translations Book of Winchester Estonian: et William Vallutaja maakataster Latin: la Angliae Notitia et Lustratio, la Censualis Angliae, la Liber Censualis, la Liber Judicarius, la Liber Judiciarius, la Liber Regis, la Liber de Thesauro, la Liber de Wintonia, la Rotulus Regis, la Rotulus Wintoniae, la Scriptura Thesauri Regis Macedonian: mk Кни́га на Стра́шниот суд f, mk Кни́га на Су́дниот ден f Noun Domesday Book en usually in the plural One of the volumes of the Domesday Book. en figurative A record of any other Norman survey. en Books