indiction

Noun

Meaning

Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.

A cycle of fifteen years.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

aeon eon inlet time day age date hue cycle generation circulation intake admission announcement conscription

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Antonyms

New York minute jiffy second brief time brief period

Hypernyms

period period of time time period

Examples

Julian Period from indiction, Metonic and solar cycles Let Y be the year BC or AD and i, m and s respectively its positions in the indiction, Metonic and solar cycles. Source: Internet

Sometimes the start of the year was reckoned as 24 September, the start of the so-called "western indiction" introduced by Bede. Source: Internet

The indiction caused the Byzantine year, which used the Julian calendar, to begin on 1 September; this date is still used in the Eastern Orthodox Church for the beginning of the liturgical year. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

indictably indictee indicter indictive indictment indictment chamber