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单词 era of nabonassar
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era of Nabonassar
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.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > period with own chronological system or era
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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.
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