单词 | anno domini |
释义 | Anno Dominiadv.n. A. adv. Preceding (or in later use following) a date: in the year coming the specified number of years since the birth of Jesus; in the specified year of the Christian era. Usually abbreviated a.d. (see A.D. adv.). Cf. Common Era n.Anno Domini is occasionally used after prepositions in phrases such as about Anno Domini 220, as if it were a noun with the sense ‘the specified year of the Christian era’.The practice of counting the years from the birth of Jesus was introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in 532, but it is now recognized that his birth was probably several years before a.d. 1, though some authorities assign it to a.d. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > period with own chronological system or era > particular year in Christian era year of gracec1325 (in) the year of our Lord (also our Lord God, our Lord's incarnation)1389 the year of Christc1392 Anno Dom.1438 year1482 anno1484 Anno Domini1485 the year of (our) redemption1513 A.D.1556 year of (man's) salvation1560 1485 Croniclis of Englonde (St. Albans) iv. sig. gijv (heading) Her begyneth the ordir of popys of Rome: and continuys as the lyne of crist did afoor... Anno domini xxxiiij. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. sig. Aiv This yere..frirs Carims began first..anno domini M.ij.C.xx. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum sig. ¶.iiii/2 Kalixtus..ordained the foure yeerely fasts, about Anno Domini. 220. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 272 Hee dyed Anno Domini 273, and before the Hegira or Mussulmanish accompt 347. 1776 D. Garrick Let. 9 Oct. in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 29 I have been restor'd to Grace, & favour Anno Domini 1775. 1818 T. Moore Fudge Family in Paris iii. 68 Here toddles along some old figure of fun, With a coat you might date Anno Domini One. 1916 (title) The motorists' almanac for 1917 anno domini. 1992 R. Wright Stolen Continents (1993) vi. 149 This was likely to happen at the completion of a Calendar Round—a fifty-two-year cycle of the Aztec calendar—which Mexicans dreaded just as Europeans had dreaded the year 1000 anno Domini. B. n. 1. A particular year. rare. ΚΠ 1604 ‘J. Brereley’ Apologie Romane Church sig. ¶4v (heading) A table of certaine fathers..and of the Anno Domini in which they liued. 1862 St. James's Mag. Dec. 23 I should think she stands him in some seven or eight thousand pounds a year, this particular Anno Domini of ours. 1998 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 6 Dec. (People section) b1/1 December is like a water slide... I'm finding any number of reasons to start anticipating the new year early.., even while I'm still slurrying down the last sloping twist of the current anno domini. 2. colloquial and humorous. Advanced or advancing age; (sometimes more generally) the passage of time. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] eld971 old agec1330 agec1380 last agea1382 oldc1385 aldereldea1400 winterc1425 vilessec1430 annosityc1450 senectute1481 the black ox1546 golden years1559 years1561 great1587 afterlife1589 setting sun1597 antiquity1600 chair-daysa1616 the vale of yearsa1616 grandevity1623 green old age1634 eldship1647 senioritya1688 the other side of the hill1691 the decline of life1711 senectude1756 senility1791 senectitude1796 post-climacteric1826 Anno Domini1885 senium1911 golden age1946 1885 F. Gale Life R. Grimston xvi. 284 Whenever he felt less able to do things than formerly, he used to say he was afraid ‘Anno Domini’ was the cause. 1892 F. Pollock Leading Cases 93 Yet nothing mortal may deny The march of Anno Domini Not e'en the Senior Fellow. 1906 E. V. Lucas Fireside & Sunshine 186 When the time came for A. to take the bat he was unable to do so. Anno Domini asserted itself. 1921 Times 31 Mar. My resignation is due to what we call the anno Domini clause, which has come into operation. 2001 Church Times 21 Sept. 11/2 She had been suffering for some time from Anno Domini. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adv.n.1485 |
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