| n. | 1. | |
| 1. | Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment. | |
| 2. | A cycle of fifteen years. |
| Noun | 1. | indiction - a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms |
INDICTION, computation of time. An indiction contained a space of fifteen
years.
2. It was used in dating at Rome and in England. It began at the
dismission of the Nicene council, A. D. 312. The first year was reckoned the
first of the first indiction, the second, the third, &c., till fifteen years
afterwards. The sixteenth year was the first year of the second indiction,
the thirty-first year was the first year of the third indiction, &c.