单词 | indiction |
释义 | indictionn. 1. The action of ordaining or announcing authoritatively and publicly; an appointment, declaration, proclamation. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] bodingc1000 proclamationa1325 announcingc1450 pronunciationc1455 nunciationc1460 proclaim1461 announcement1512 blazoning1533 denouncement1544 denunciation1548 denouncing1552 annunciation1563 blazing1563 indiction1583 pronouncement1593 exclamation1602 predication1618 pronounce1641 preconization1650 predicature1653 denounce1704 preconizance1719 annunciatinga1729 annonce1775 announce1779 blazonment1876 1583 J. Foxe tr. Card. Julian Epist. in Actes & Monuments (ed. 4) I. 699/1 A prorogation is made before the terme is expired and not after, for after, it is rather called an newe indiction or appoyntment. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 153 A hereald must be couragious to promulgate the cruell indictions of warres (by his soueraignes commaunde). 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 161 According to the Kings indiction, the Assembly met and sate at Edenburgh. a1714 Bp G. Burnet Hist. Reformation anno 1536 (R.) He agreed that neither he nor they should accept of the indiction of a General Council, but by all mutual consent. 1731 S. Chandler tr. P. van Limborch Hist. Inquisition II. 110 He must take care that the Rectors of the Churches have these Letters of Indiction on Sunday. 1872 W. H. Jervis Gallican Church I. ii. 150 The bull of indiction was so worded as to admit the view for which the French contended. 2. The decree or proclamation of the Roman Emperors fixing the valuation on which the property-tax was assessed at the beginning of each period of fifteen years; hence, the tax or subsidy paid on the basis of this assessment. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > commercial or revenue sizea1300 assizea1330 indiction1586 poll bill1641 frumentarian law1652 statute of the staple1657 statute of frauds1678 Gin Act1730 Pot Act1733 Stamp Act1765 Stamp-Bill1765 corn law1766 Bumboat Act1796 Maine law1852 permissive bill1864 lemon law1981 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > property tax > specific indiction1586 top-annual1597 zakat1802 premium1859 betterment tax1869 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [noun] > fixing amount of tax > assessed value > decree fixing indiction1586 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 147 Their indiction or subsedie (called the indiction of fifteene yeares) was payd in this manner. a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) 735 Besides those other ordinary, the indictions for war (which we call subsidies) are part of quæ Cæsaris too. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 62 The emperor subscribed with his own hand, and in purple ink, the solemn edict, or indiction, which was fixed up in the principal city of each diocese, during two months previous to the first day of September. And, by a very easy connection of ideas, the word indiction was transferred to the measure of tribute which it prescribed, and to the annual term which it allowed for the payment. 1848 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. ii. Note vii. 306 The indiction, or land-tax, imposed on the subjects of the Roman empire. 1851 J. Stephen Lect. Hist. France (1852) I. 25 There was a new assessment, or, as it was called, indiction, every fifteenth year. 3. a. The fiscal period of fifteen years, instituted by the Emperor Constantine in a.d. 313, and reckoned from the 1st of September 312, which became a usual means of dating ordinary events and transactions, and continued in use as such down through the Middle Ages. Also called indiction cycle or era of indiction or indictions.Besides this, the original or Constantinopolitan indiction, there were also the Constantinian (adopted on mistaken grounds in Western Europe) which began on September 24, and the so-called Roman or Pontifical, beginning with the commencement of the civil year. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > fifteen year cycle or indiction indictiona1387 indicion?1533 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 255 Þe Romayns..hadde of every lond þat þey hadde i-wonne þre manere tribute in fiftene ȝere, and cleped þe fiftene ȝere Indictioun. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Indiction, which is the space of fiftene yeres and used after the church of Rome, indictio. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 127 Computation of times, as amongst the Greekes by Olympiads, and amongst the Romans by Lustra and Indictions. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 641. 1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. viii. 468 From this Year [312] began that noted Æra or Period of Time call'd The Indiction. 1824 T. Tegg Chron. Introd. 17 The Cycle of Indiction..was established by Constantine a.d. 312; if therefore from any given year of the Christian era 312 be subtracted and the remainder be divided by 15, the year of this cycle will be obtained. 1897 W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Apr. 275 The indictions are not known to have been in use earlier than the fourth century. b. transferred. Any similar cycle of years. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > cycle (of years) indiction1843 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. iv. 115 To enable them to specify any particular year, they divided the great cycle into four smaller cycles, or indictions, of thirteen years each. 4. A specified year in the recurring period of fifteen years, counting from a.d. 312–313, indicated by its numerical position in the cycle; the number thus indicating a year. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > particular year of a period indictiona1387 exient1677 the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > fifteen year cycle or indiction > specific year in indictiona1387 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 253 After þe concepcioun of Iohn Baptiste, þe sixte monþe, þe fyve and twenty day of Marche, in a Friday, þe tenþe day of the mone, þe twelfþe Inductioun [Higden Indictione duodecima; Harl. transl. the xiithe indiccion], at Nazareth in Galilee, Crist is iconceyved of þe virgine Marie. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 28 The secunde yer of the forseyd pope Sergye, and thwelfte indiccyoun. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vii. ix. f. 310v Adde to the yeare of the Lorde giuen 3. and diuide the product thereof by 15. and the remainder shall be the number of the said indiction. 1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 43 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) [Charlemain] died..in the year of our Lord eight hundred and fourteen, the seventh Indiction, on the fifth Calends of February. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 178 These things were enacted in the Year of the Incarnation of our Lord 855, in the third Indiction, on the Nones of November. 1861 F. H. A. Scrivener Plain Introd. Crit. New Test. 183 (note) The letter χ is quite illegible, but the Indiction 9 belongs only to a.d. 831, 1131, 1431. 1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 15 The year of the Greek era, and sometimes the proper Indiction of that year. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] fastenOE fastc1175 indiction1641 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 39 He that cannot tell of Stations, and Indictions..shall be counted a lank, shallow, unsufficient man. 1665 J. Evelyn Let. 9 Feb. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 151 The Lenten abstinence minds me of another incongruity..the frequency of our theatrical pastimes during that indiction. a1706 J. Evelyn Life Mrs. Godolphin (1939) 89 Not onely did she Fast on days of Indiction, & such as the Church injoyns. 6. = indication n.: cf. indict v.2 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign tokeningc888 fingereOE senyeOE markOE showing?c1225 blossomc1230 signa1325 signifyingc1384 evidencea1393 notea1398 forbysena1400 kenninga1400 knowinga1400 showerc1400 unningc1400 signala1413 signification?a1425 demonstrancec1425 cenyc1440 likelinessc1450 ensign1474 signifure?a1475 outshowinga1500 significativea1500 witter1513 precedent1518 intimation1531 signifier1532 meith1533 monument1536 indicion?1541 likelihood1541 significator1554 manifest1561 show1561 evidency1570 token-teller1574 betokener1587 calendar1590 instance1590 testificate1590 significant1598 crisis1606 index1607 impression1613 denotementa1616 story1620 remark1624 indicium1625 denotation1633 indice1636 signum1643 indiction1653 trace1656 demonstrator1657 indication1660 notationa1661 significatory1660 indicator1666 betrayer1678 demonstration1684 smell1691 wittering1781 notaa1790 blazonry1850 sign vehicle1909 marker1919 rumble1927 1653 R. Saunders Treat. Moles Body Man & Woman 21 in Physiognomie [It] is the indiction of a short life. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1387 |
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