system of reckoning

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a system of reckoning time was known centuries ago.

From The Revelation Explained by Smith, F. G. (Frederick George)

The Assyrians were endowed with a keen sense of history, and had invented a system of reckoning time by means of certain officers called limmi, who gave their names to their years of office.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

I have throughout identified the social organization with the kinship organization—namely, that into which a man is born in consequence of the marriage laws and the system of reckoning descent.

From Anthropology by Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)

The system of reckoning kinship through females only.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John