Dutch reckoning

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high. archaic,idiomatic,uncommon,uncountable
    — As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up in Clavius his Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like a Dutch''' Reckoning of Allem-al?
  2. A false or incorrect reckoning of position. uncountable
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, reckoning. uncountable
    — 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.
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