Definitions for indiction

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indiction in·dic·tion

Spelling: [in-dik-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪnˈdɪk ʃən/

Indiction is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in indiction (cdiiinnot).

Definitions for indiction

noun

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 recurring fiscal period of 15 years in the Roman Empire, long used for dating ordinary events. Compare lustrum.
4. a specified year in this period.
5. the number indicating it.

Origin of indiction

1350-1400; Middle English indiccio(u)n Latin indictiōn- (stem of indictiō) announcement, equivalent to indict(us) past participle of indīcere to announce, proclaim + -iōn-

Examples for indiction

Indeed, if popularity was an indiction, this had become suddenly true.

Cycles used in chronology are three: The solar cycle, the lunar cycle, and the cycle of indiction.

The general tribute, or indiction, as it was called, was derived largely from the taxation of landed property.

The date of the letters is the Third indiction, September 1, 509.

Given at Rome, the 6th of the Ides of January, the 14th indiction.

By extending it backwards, it will be found that the first of the era was the fourth of the cycle of indiction.

The indiction itself, and every one of the years composing it, began on the 1st of September of the calendar year.

Announces to this young man his nomination to the Praefecture of the City (for the 4th indiction).

For this indiction we send you as Count to weigh the causes of the people of Naples.

Before its adoption the usual practice in Latin countries was to distinguish the years by their number in the cycle of indiction.