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millennian, n. and a.|mɪˈlɛnɪən|
Also 7 millenian.
[Formed as millennial a. + -an.]
A. n. A believer in the millennium.
1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 230 Chiliasts, or Millenians..held that our Blessed Lord should reign on earth a thousand years. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844) I. 277 The gradual corruption of the once holy millennians.
B. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the millennium.
1806G. S. Faber Diss. Proph. (1814) I. 51 The millennian reign of Christ upon earth. 1851― Many Mansions 193 A Millennian Kingdom upon Earth.
2. Belonging to a period of a thousand years.
1867Burton Hist. Scot. (1873) I. xii. 411 It [sc. the terror caused by the expectation of the end of the world in a.d. 1000] is known as the millennian panic.
Hence † miˈllennianism, the doctrine of the millennians. † miˈllennianite = millenary n. 4.
1692Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 49 'Tis said that he [Sir W. Ralegh] wrot a Tract of Millinanism [1721, II. 96 Milleninanism]. a1845A. E. Bray Warleigh xliv, The constable, who was a Millennianite, was with some difficulty stopped in the midst of his harangue. |