INDICTION

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment. [Obs.] "Indiction of a war." Bacon. Secular princes did use to indict, or permit the indiction of, synods of bishops. Jer. Taylor.

2.
n.

A cycle of fifteen years.


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