单词 | indictions |
释义 | > as lemmasindictions 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. < as lemmas |
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