Deathbook
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Deathbook is a noun meaning Alternative form of death book.
Meaning
Alternative form of death book.
Example Sentences
The only “G. L.” in the church's deathbook up to 1849 was Garret Lawrence, a Shaker physician and botanist (d. 1837), [...]
What an interesting study was a surgeon's deathbook! There we should find disasters recorded due to causes quite beyond the ken of all surgeons. In many instances, though the surgeon has done his very best, yet how untoward the result! He felt sure that what was true of his own deathbook was applicable to the deathbook of other surgeons.
Word Forms
- deathbooks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include case-book, death bed, fieldbook, guestbook, jokebook, death's head.
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