A. D.

A form of ad — Advantage; also, designating the left-hand side, from the player's point of view, of their half of the court, where the advantage point following a deuce is always played.

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Meanings

adverb
  1. alternativeAlternative form of AD.

    The Edict of Diocletian (A. D. 301) lists all manner of dalmaticae in fine wool, silk, wool and silk union fabric, and linen, for men and women.

    1968, Bonner Jahrbücher, page 222
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    The founder of the Min dynasty (A. D. 1368) declares of him, “He descended repeatedly from heaven to be the imperial teacher; generation after generation he ceased not, but men knew him not. History, which has recorded every thing which could be of interest about Confucius, even to the minutest details of his daily life, failed to hand down the daily acts of a man who, for character and grasp of thought, far transcends his contemporary, Confucius.”

    1884, Virgil C. Hart, “Taoism”, in John Morrison Reid, editor, Doomed Religions, New York: Phillips & Hunt, →OCLC, →OL, page 298

    In a corner of Mongolia near Turkestan, at Turpan, in an excavation, old boots have been found which were repaired with kid palimpsests of the third century, A. D., — a literal example of the truth marching into benighted Cathay.

    1909, John Stuart Thomson, The Chinese, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 371
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