Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and incorporated in some medieval systems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A declaration; proclamation.
- noun A fiscal period of fifteen years, established by Constantine the Great after the reorganization of the Roman Empire, being the term during which the annual tax on real property was paid on the basis of a valuation made and proclaimed at the beginning of each quindecennial period. This became a common and convenient means for dating ordinary transactions.
- noun Hence In chronology, a year bearing a number, or the number attached to the year, showing its place in a cycle of fifteen years, counting from
a. d. 313.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.
- noun A cycle of fifteen years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
fiscal period offifteen years , instituted by Constantine in 313 CE (but counting from 1st September 312), used throughout the Middle Ages as a way ofdating events, documents etc. - noun A
declaration or officialannouncement . - noun historical The
decree made by Roman Emperors which fixed the property tax for the next fifteen years.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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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.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Benedictines.] * It does not appear that the establishment of the indiction is to be at tributed to Constantine: it existed before he had been created Augustus at Rome, and the remission granted by him to the city of Autun is the proof.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The indiction was a cycle of fifteen years, the first of these cycles being conceived to have started at a point three years before the beginning of the present Christian Era.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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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.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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"Jon Stewart Makes Jim Cramer Exhibit A in Indicting Wall Street Bankers" is there a word "indiction", my dictionary has it meaning something other then past tense of "indict"
Firedoglake 2009
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Also, history shows that predator populations are a good indiction of food source.
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If your spelling and grammar are any indiction of your intelligence level, you are saying more about yourself than abut the subject. phillip Marlowe
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Also, history shows that predator populations are a good indiction of food source.
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Buice said he saw no indiction of remorse on Adkisson's part.
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