Chapter Dominie Sampson to Doomsday Sedgwick of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Doom The crack of doom. The signal for the final judgment.

Doom Book (dom-boc) is the book of dooms or judgments compiled by King Alfred. (See Domesday Book.)

Doom-rings or Circles of Judgment. An Icelandic term for circles of stones resembling Stonehenge and Avebury.

Doomsday Sedgwick William Sedgwick, a fanatical prophet and preacher during the Commonwealth. He pretended to have had it revealed to him in a vision that doomsday was at hand; and, going to the house of Sir Francis Russell, in Cambridgeshire, he called upon a party of gentlemen playing at bowls to leave off and prepare for the approaching dissolution.