Antonym: B.C.. Meaning: adv. in the Christian era; used before dates after the supposed year Christ was born.
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1, Abbreviations like B.C. and A.D. are usually capitalized.
2, The presentation was an excellent example of design expertise using the C.A.D. and the latest computerised sample machine.
3, As treasurer of the R.A.D.D., he once balanced the books, which had a serious deficit, with a handsome donation.
4, By A.D. 54-5, militant activity had again assumed epidemic proportions.
5, In the spring of A.D. 66, serious fighting broke out in Caesarea.
6, The basilica, completed in A.D. 329, was 391 feet long and 208 feet wide.
7, Origen, who lived from about A.D. 185 to 254, was a slightly later ecclesiastical scholar who produced a version of the Old Testament, called the Hexapla.
8, In clarifying orthodox Christology (the doctrine of Jesus Christ), the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) laid the foundation of Western liberty.
9, In the city of Lanciano, Italy, around A.D. 700, a Basilian monk and priest was assigned to celebrate the Eucharistic sacrifice in the Latin Rite in the small Church of St. Legontian.
10, After being acclaimed emperor by his troops in A.D. 69 and eliminating his rivals, Vespasian found Rome facing a deep economic crisis and still recovering from the fire that consumed it under Nero.
11, The study also found more evidence that A.D.H.D. symptoms change with age.
12, The study found that rates and signs of A.D.H.D. are about the same in children there as in the United States.
13, Around A.D. 180, Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon in what was then Roman Gaul, wrote a massive treatise called Against Heresies.
14, In the second century A.D., Galen reckoned that the cause was systemic, an excess of melancholy or black bile, one of the body’s four “humors, ” brought on by bad diet and environmental circumstances.
15, Finally, he presided over the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325.
16, It was also in Edessa that the oldest known church was built,[http://sentencedict.com/a.d..html] then destroyed in A.D. 201.
17, Buddhism originated in India and came to China in the first century A.D.
18, the Byzantine period, between the fourth and seventh centuries A.D.
19, The period covered by the narrative in Acts begins shortly after the Crucifixion and ends somewhere between A.D. 64 and 67.
20, Eusebius traces them to the time of the Emperor Trajan, A.D. 98-117.
21, "Everyone has some of these symptoms, " said Dr. Tuckman. "But the person with A.D.H.D. has had them his entire life, and they are chronic and pervasive."
22, The study also found that only about half the Finnish children diagnosed with A.D.H.D. had deficits in short-term memory and self-control.
23, Once upon a time—right at the start of the fifth century A.D.—the Emperor Honorius transferred the capital of the Western Roman Empire to this city.
24, But raising of pet fish goes back to the early days of the Sung Dynasty in China, about 900 A.D., when they were raised in small bottles as house pets.
25, Kindergarten reading skills and scores on attention measures — where youngsters with A.D.H.D. falter — also predicted later academic success, but less strongly than math scores did.
26, Named for the Roman emperor who commissioned it in A.D. 122, Hadrian's Wall stretches 73 miles (117 kilometers) across northern England from coast to coast.
27, The concept of the American Santa Claus originated with St. Nicholas, who was born in Asia Minor in 280 A.D. He was known as a kind, benevolent man; indeed made a saint because of his generosity.
28, Perched on the edge of the Arabian Desert, Petra was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom of King Aretas IV (9 B.C. to A.D. 40).
29, Nottingham has about 500 sandstone caves, many closed to the public, Walker said. The caves date back to early Viking times in about 800 A.D.
30, China boasts the world's earliest observatory, built in Nanking in 1385 in the Ming Dynasty (1368 A.D.-1644 A.D.), three centuries ahead of the Greenwich Observatory built in Britain in 1670.