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chiliast|ˈkɪlɪəst|
[mod. ad. L. chiliasta (Augustine), ad. Gr. χιλιαστής. In mod.F. chiliaste.]
One who holds that Christ will reign in person on earth for a thousand years; a believer in the millennium; a millenarian.
1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 324 Agreed on all sides, except the Chiliasts. 1641Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xiv. 64 These the new Chiliastes. 1647Hist. Anabaptists 52 All Anabaptists were and are still Chiliasts, expounding literally that Kingdome of a thousand years of Revel. xx. 6 to be a temporall Kingdome. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iv. i. 171 The Talmudic Jews and..the Chiliasts of the early ages. 1858Masson Milton I. 103.
attrib.a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 90 The opinion of the Jews and Chiliast Christians. |