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premillennial, a.|ˌpriːmɪˈlɛnɪəl|
[f. pre- B. 1 + millennial a.]
Occurring before the millennium; particularly said of the Second Advent of Christ; also, pertaining to the world as it now is before the millennium.
1846G. Ogilvy (title) Popular Objections to the Pre⁓millennial Advent considered. 1848G. S. Faber Many Mansions Pref. (1851) 21 If we admit the conclusion, we shall have..a literal Premillennial Second Advent; a literal Reign, upon Earth, of the literally resuscitated Saints and Martyrs. 1868Visct. Strangford Select. (1869) II. 304 A statesman who objects to our common work-a-day pre⁓millennial logic as an instrument of human education.
Hence premiˈllennialism, the doctrine or belief that the Second Advent will precede the millennium; premiˈllennialist, one who holds this doctrine; premiˈllennialize v. intr., to preach premillennialism; hence premiˈllennializing ppl. adj.; premiˈllennially adv., prior to the millennium.
1848G. S. Faber Many Mansions Pref. (1851) 23 The Scheme of Mr. Mede and the Premillennialists. Ibid. 178 A want of attention to it has led our premillennialising friends to bring forward a very inconclusive argument in support of their speculation. Ibid. 196 This prophecy, instead of being invincibly demonstrative of Premillennialism, is absolutely fatal to it. 1851Elliott Horæ Apoc. (1862) IV. 157 The martyrs and saints spoken of just before, as raised premillennially to live and reign with Christ. 1878H. G. Guinness End of Age (1880) 92 All the primitive expositors and teachers were premillennialists. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1888 From the death of the apostles till the time of Origen, premillenialism was the general faith of..orthodox Christians. |