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Definition of Domesday book

1. Noun. Record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror.

Definition of Domesday book

1. Proper noun. (historical) A record of the great survey of England carried out in 1086 for w:William the Conqueror William the Conqueror. ¹

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Literary usage of Domesday book

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary (1887)
"From these returns, by an elaborate system of re-arrangement and " boiling down," was compiled domesday book.* Much has been said of the marvellous speed ..."

2. The Domesday Boroughs by Adolphus Ballard (1904)
"THE LIMITATIONS OF domesday book. PROFESSOR MAITLAND has taught us that Domesday Book is a geld book; the Conqueror wished to know exactly what would be the ..."

3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1889)
"... survey* therof taken in the 20 and last year of the Conqueror's time viz. AD (1086, 1087), as it thus runneth. (domesday book description of Oxford s. ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"domesday book.—For,, as soon as the danger was over, the king held a great council ... of which was the compiling of the great survey called domesday book, ..."

5. Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws by Henry Duff Traill (1894)
"THE great inquest survey, or " Description of all England," which we call Domesday Book, is one of the domesday book most precious documents that any nation ..."

6. Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1865)
"domesday book was printed in the last century, in consequence of an address ... Portions of domesday book have been printed in almost every county history, ..."

7. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"BIRCH (W. de G.) Materials for the re-editing of the domesday book. Land. ... domesday book. Measurements of the Domesday of Cambridgeshire. 1884. fol. ..."

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