phr. [L. ‘in the year of (our) Lord’; usually written A.D.] In the year of the Christian era; in the year since (the reputed date of) the birth of Christ.
1579. W. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 389. Whome M. Heskins … affirmeth to haue liued Anno Dom. 511.
1818. Moore, Fudge Fam. Paris, iii. 68. Here toddles along some old figure of fun, With a coat you might date Anno Domini One.
