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That part of phyfic which treats of indications is called 

 Jevie'rnica. 



INDICATIVE, in Grammar, the firil mood or manner 

 of conjugating verbs, (liewing either the time prefent, part, 

 or future, and afierting what we think certain ; and, there- 

 fore, fometimes called the decLiraiive mood. 



I love is tlie prefent tenfe ; / loved, the pad ; and / -will 

 lo-i'^ is the future of the indicative mood. 



Indicative Column. See Column. 



INDICATOR, ill Anatomy, extenfor or abduftor iu- 

 dicis, cubito-fus-ou^uien ; a mufcle of the fore-finger, fitu- 

 ated on the dorfal furface of the forearm. It is a flender 

 mufcle, of an elongated figure, extended from the back of 

 the ulna to the fore-finger. It arifcs, by (liort aponeurotic 

 fibres, from tlie pollerior furface of the ulna, beginning 

 about the middle of the bone, and having its attachment 

 extended towards the wrift ; and in a flight degree from the 

 iuterofleous hgament. It is flender and pointed at its origin, 

 grows gradually larger, and then diminillies again and forms 

 a fuiall flattened tendon. From its origin at the middle 

 of the ulna, it pafTes obliquely to the carpal end of the 

 radius, and is confined at the furface of that bone in a 

 fibrous iheath common to it with the extenfor communis, to 

 which it is here attaclied by means of the fynovial membrane 

 which lines the flicath. Quitting the flieath, it runs along 

 the back of the hand, on the radial fide of the tendon, 

 which the fore-finger receives from the extenfor communis : 

 tiicfetwo approach each other, and are united at the arti- 

 culation of the finger to the metacarpus. The common 

 t^endon paflcs over the back of the firll joint of the fore- 

 finger, over the firil phalanx, and then divides into three 

 portions, which terminate hke thofe of the extenfor digi- 

 tornm communis : it corrcfponds to them alfo in every other 

 particular, fciee Extkxsor. 



The poflerior furface of this mufcle is covered by the 

 extenfor carpi uluaris, the extenfor proprius auricularis, and 

 extenfor communis digitorum, and by the integuments. Its 

 anterior furface is in coutatt with the ulna, interoffeous liga- 

 ment, radius, carpus, interojTeous mufcle of the fecond In- 

 terval, m.etacarpus, fynovial membranes of the digital arti- 

 culations, and the phalanges. The radial edge is in contaft 

 for a confiderable fpace with tiie extenfor tertii intcrnodii 

 pollicis ; the ulnar edge is attached to a ridge of the 

 ulna. It will extend the three phalanges of the fore-finger, 

 and move it towards the ulnar edge of the hand, as in point- 

 ing to an obji-a. It will extend the wrift, and affill in the 

 fupination of the radius. 



INDIC.-iVIT, vn Lau>, a writ or prohibition that lies 

 for a patron of a church, whofe clerk is fued in the fpi- 

 ritual court by another clerk for tithes, which do amount 

 to a fourth part of the profits of the advowfon ; then the 

 fuit belongs to the king's court, by the ftat. Well. i. cap. j. 

 And the patron of the defendant being likely to be preju- 

 diced iu his church and advowfon, if tlie plaintiff recovers in 

 the fpiritual court, hath this means to remove it to the king's 

 court. Reg. Orig. 3j. Old Nat. Br. 31. 



INDICIS ExTEN.soR, in jinatomy. See Indicator. 



■ Semi-inlerojftus. See Abductou. 



INDICTION, fignifies the convoking of an ecclefiaftical 

 aflembiy ; asa'fynod, or council, or even a diet. 



Indici ION is applied to the feveral fcflions of the ftime 

 councils. 



Hence it is, that at the end of the fcfTions of the 

 council of Trent, the decree by which the council aopoints 

 the day of the future feflion, is called the iodiaioa of that 

 I'efllon. 



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Indiction, in Chronology, a term ufed for a kind of 

 epocha, or manner of counting time among the Romans ; 

 containing a cycle or revolution of fifteen years, which, 

 when expired, begins anew, and goes round again without 

 intermifllon. 



This method of computation has no dependence on the 

 heavenly motions. Petavius fays, there is nothing in chro- 

 nology lefs known than the Roman indit'lion ; he means, 

 than its original and commencement. It is the general 

 opinion, that it was inftituted in the time of Conftantine, 

 about the year 312 ; but this is a mere guefs. There were 

 indictions in the time of the emperor Condantius, as ap- 

 pears from the Theodofian Code. The learned hold, that 

 indiftions were originally no other than certain annual 

 taxes, the tariffs whereof were publ.ihed every year ; but 

 why they were fo called, why confined to a cycle of fift 

 teen years, when, and on what oceafion, inftituted, is not 

 known. 



We find three kinds of indiftions mentioned in authors ; 

 the indictiun of Conftantinople, beginning on the firft of 

 September ; the Imperial, or Ca:farean mdiftion, on the 

 fourteenth of September ; and the Roman or Papal indic- 

 tion, which is that ufed iu the pope's bulls, and which begins 

 on the fii-fl; of .January. 



The popes have dated their afts by the year of the indic- 

 tion, which was fixed to the firft of January, A. D. 

 .;ij, ever finte Charlemagne made them fovereign ; be- 

 fore w hich time they dated them by the years of the em- 

 perors. 



At the time of the reformation of the calendar, the year 

 1^82 was reckoned the tenth year of the indiftion ; fo 

 that beginning to reckon hence, and dividing the number 

 of years elapfed between that time and this by 15, the 

 remainder, with the addition of 10, will be the year of in- 

 diftion, correfponding to the year of our Lord 181 1. The 

 indiftion may alfo be found by adding 3 to the year of owr 

 Lord, and dividing the fum by 15, the remainder is then 

 the year of the indiftion : if there be no remainder the in- 

 diftion is I e. In either of thefe ways the year of indiftion 

 for 1 81 1 is 14. 



The word indiftion comes from indialo, which fignifies 

 (Jlablijhment, order, or denunciation. The time of the indic- 

 tion, among the Romans, was that wherein the people were 

 fummoned to pay a certain tribute ; and it is for this reafon, 

 that the imperial indiftion began towards the end of Septem- 

 ber ; becaufe the harveft being then got in, it was fuppofed 

 the people could more eafily pay their tax. 



INDICTIVE, In'dictivus, an epithet given to certain 

 feaft-days appointed by the Roman magiftrates, viz. the con- 

 ful, or prxtor. 



INDICTMENT, derived from the French endiler, indi- 

 care, or, according to M. Lanibard, from :»J=i«it;;ui, I charge, 

 I inform ngaiiijl, in Laiv, a bill or declaration, of complaint, 

 drawn up in form of law, for the benefit of the common- 

 wealth : exhibited as an accufation of one for fome oft'ence, 

 criminal or penal, and preferred to a grand jury, and by 

 their verdift found to be true, and prelented before a judge 

 or officer, who has power to punifli or certify the fame 

 ofience. 



Indictment, in Common Law, fignifies as much as accu- 

 fatio among the civihans ; though in fome points it differs. 

 Sec Accusation. 



Lambard fays, an indiftment is an accufation at the fuit 

 of the king, by the oaths of twelve men of the fame 

 county where the offence was committed ; returned to in- 

 quire of all offences in general in the county, determinable by 

 the court into which they are returned, and their finding a bill 



brought 



