Definition of Ledgier

1. ledgy [adj] - See also: ledgy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ledgier

ledged
ledgeman
ledgement
ledgements
ledger
ledger board
ledger entry
ledger line
ledger lines
ledger paper
ledgerdemain
ledgered
ledgering
ledgers
ledges
ledgier (current term)
ledgiest
ledgy
ledish
ledums
ledës-man
lee
lee(a)
lee shore
lee side
lee tide
leeangle
leear
leears
leeboard

Literary usage of Ledgier

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

1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"Our conscience, which is a great ledgier book, wherein are written all our offences, a register to lay them up, (which thon: ч . ..."

2. The Loseley Manuscripts: Manuscripts and Other Rare Documents, Illustrative by Alfred John Kempe (1836)
"... ye nuntio of ye Pope and ye ambassador of Spaine, there ledgier,* who were both covered in her p'sence. Then, as I passed, I turned to ye other syde, ..."

3. History of King Richard III by Thomas More (1883)
"Cf. Bacon, Charge against Dudley, "It is weakness and dis- esteem of a man's self to put a man's life upon such ledgier performances. ..."

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