See Also: indiction(medicine)
indiction(dictionary)
INDICTION, computation of time(law)

lifeline (iou) and indiction (iou)


lifeline (iou)



lifeline noun. E18.
[from LIFE noun + LINE noun2.]
A line or rope for use in life-saving, e.g. attached to a lifebuoy or used by fire-fighters. E18.
Ilkeston Advertiser The lifelineseasier to use and more accurate than lifebeltswere provided. fig.: G. Orwell The public schoolman..clings to the Old School Tie as to a lifeline.
b. A diver's signalling line. L19.
fig. In Classical Mythology, the thread supposedly spun by the Fates, determining the length of a person's life (formerly also called line of life). Also, an essential supply route, a line of communication, etc. M19.
Sun (Baltimore) As they [the Japanese] went along, they..got themselves into a position where they could threaten the American life line to Australia. B. Unsworth Battistella, his lifeline in this too, brought him the gossip of the coffee house.
Palmistry. A line on the palm of the hand supposed to indicate one's length of life. L19.
M. McCarthy He felt a sharp pain in..his palm, the part bounded by his lifeline.

indiction (iou)



indiction noun. LME.
[Latin indictio(n-), from indict-: see INDICT verb1, -ION.]
Hist. The fiscal period of fifteen years, instituted by the Emperor Constantine in AD 313, which became a means of Dating ordinary events and transactions. LME.
b. A specified year in the indiction, indicated by number. LME.
c. The decree of the Roman Emperors fixing the valuation on which the property tax was assessed at the beginning of each indiction; the tax paid on the basis of this assessment. L16.
The action of ordaining or announcing authoritatively and publicly; an appointment, a declaration, a proclamation. arch. M16.
H. L'Estrange According to the Kings indiction, the Assembly met..at Edenburgh.
indictional adjective (rare) E18.