indiction
11Indiction — L’indiction romaine du latin indictio, « annonce » , correspond à une imposition en nature, puis sous le Bas Empire à une période d actualisation des bases fiscales, fixée à 15 ans. Sous la république romaine, le terme d indiction n… …
12INDICTION — s. f. Convocation d une grande assemblée à certain jour. Il ne se dit guère qu en parlant de La convocation d un concile ou d un synode. Depuis l indiction du concile de Trente jusqu à l ouverture. La bulle de l indiction du concile. INDICTION,… …
13INDICTION — n. f. Fixation à un jour dit, en particulier pour un concile ou un synode. Depuis l’indiction du concile de Trente jusqu’à l’ouverture. La bulle de l’indiction du concile. Il se dit aussi, en termes de Chronologie, dans les bulles du Pape ou dans …
14indiction — indictional, adj. /in dik sheuhn/, n. 1. a proclamation made every 15 years in the later Roman Empire, fixing the valuation of property to be used as a basis for taxation. 2. a tax based on such valuation. 3. Also called cycle of indiction. the… …
15indiction — noun Etymology: Middle English indiccion, from Anglo French, from Late Latin indiction , indictio, from Latin, proclamation, from indicere to proclaim, from in + dicere to say more at diction Date: 14th century a 15 year cycle used as a… …
16INDICTION — a cycle of 15 years instituted by Constantine the Great, and which began on the 24th September 812, the day of his victory over Maxentius; to find the indiction of any year add 1 and divide by 15 …
17Indiction — The term originally meant a levy of foodstuffs for the imperial government. From 1 September 312 onward it was used to refer to a 15 year tax cycle. From 537 all imperial documents were dated by the year of the indiction (first year, second… …
18Indiction, die — Die Indictiōn, plur. die en, aus dem mittlern Lat. Indictio, in der Zeitrechnung, einen Zeitraum von funfzehen Jahren zu bezeichnen, doch nur so fern die Zahl der jedesmahligen Jahre dieses Zeitraumes ehedem der Jahrzahl von der Geburt Christi an …
19indiction — noun /ɪnˈdɪkʃən/ a) A fiscal period of fifteen years, instituted by in 313 (but counting from 1st September 312), used throughout the Middle Ages as a way of dating events, documents etc. b) A declaration or official announcement …
20Indiction — A period of 15 years; as a fiscal period it was instituted by the Emperor Constantine in 313. A particular year within that period was referred to by a number, as regnal dates are indicated, e.g. 7 Henry I …
