单词 | common era |
释义 | Common Eran. A name for the period of time which begins with the traditional date of Christ's birth; abbreviated C.E. Cf. Christian era n., Anno Domini adv.Sometimes preferred as a more general term than Christian era. Similarly Before (the) Common Era (or B.C.E.) is sometimes preferred to before Christ (or B.C.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > of the world or history > specific eras or ages First Worldc1384 Christian era1636 New Age1640 Common Era1651 oil age1889 machine age1922 space age1946 jet age1948 Age of Aquarius1967 1651 tr. D. Pétau in tr. J. Daillé Treat. conc. Right Vse Fathers ii. i. 7 The Beliefe..that our Saviour Christ lived..Thirty three Years [means]..they [sc. the Church of Rome] alwaies inscribe [on their Good Friday tapers] a number of years, which is less by Thirty three, then the common Æra of the Christians [Fr. l'ære commune des Chrestiens]. 1690 J. B. Bellua Marina Pref. f. **2 In the year 314..Constantinus the first Christian Emperour came into place..& thence forwards the year of Christ began to be the common Æra or Computation of Time. 1770 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Elements Universal Erudition III. iii. 62 The first Olympiad began in the year of the world 3228, and consequently 776 years before the common era. 1871 Q. Rev. 130 498 Now, Augustus, having died in his own month of August, A.D. 14 of the Common Era, the fifteenth year of Tiberius may be taken to point to A.D. 29. 1989 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 7 May 18/3 I have been calling the first decade of the third millennium of the Common Era..the Zippy Zeros, but that is only a working title. 2007 P. J. Corfield Time & Shape Hist. p. xviii. Times past in this study are..specified, when appropriate, as occurring either before or in the Common Era (BCE/CE). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasCommon era 1. A system of chronological notation, characterized by the numbering of years from some particular point of time; e.g. the Christian era (see Christian era n. at Christian adj. and n. Compounds 3), Common era, or Vulgar era; era of the Hijra (Hegira), the Muslim era, reckoned from the year of Muhammad's flight from Mecca; era of Nabonassar, a Babylonian era, employed in astronomy, commencing 747 b.c., etc., etc. These phrases are also frequently employed in sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > period with own chronological system or era eraa1646 a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 164 Dionysius the Abbot..was Autor to the world of accounting by this new Æra,..so that the Anni Christi were not in use of Computation till the 532 year after the Nativitie. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 504 They would begin their epocha or æra from his comeing to Jerusalem. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World Ep. to Rdr. That midnight which began the first day of the Christian æra. 1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected I. i. 1 The vulgar era, by which we now compute the years from his incarnation. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 658 The computing of time by the Christian æra is introduced by Dionysius the monk. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 82 In the year 570 of our Era..the man Mahomet was born. 1861 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 (1862) 30 149 A few words on the vexed subject of the Gupta era. < n.1651 as lemmas |
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