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▪ I. millenary, a. and n.|ˈmɪlɪnərɪ|
Also 7 millinary.
[ad. L. millēnāri-us consisting of or containing a thousand (in Eccl. Latin used n. in the sense B 4 below), f. millēnī a thousand each, f. mille thousand. Cf. F. millénaire.]
A. adj.
1. a. Consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, esp. a period of a thousand years.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 250 Yet the Jews..gave not over complaints and petitions.., a Millenary number of Complainants there were. a1646J. Gregory Posthuma, καϊναν Δεύτερος (1649) 84 After six daies, that is six thousand Years duration of the World there shall bee a seventh daie, or Millenarie Sabbath of Rest. 1727Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins, etc. 13 The millenary Sestertium..is marked with a line cross the top thus HS . 1783Cowper Let. to J. Newton 30 Nov., I have wondered in former days at the patience of the Antediluvian world; that they could endure a life almost millenary, with so little variety as seems to have fallen to their share. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 270 The elliptical expressions, in the year 20, or in the year 88, wherein the millenary and the centenary numbers are omitted, are not altogether modern. 1855W. H. Mill Applic. Panth. Princ. (1861) 132 The millenary periods of Greek and Roman domination. 1888Pall Mall G. 12 May 6/1 In 1886 was the millenary commemoration of the Domesday Book.
b. Commanding one thousand men.
1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 274 There were sixe hundred tribunes or millenarie officers. 1632Holland Cyrupædia 167 Cyrus commaunded the Persian millenarie Colonels..to come unto him.
c. Hist. millenary petition: a petition presented by a number of Puritan ministers (represented as one thousand) on the progress of James I to London in April 1603, praying for certain changes in ecclesiastical ceremonial, etc. millenary plaintiffs: the ministers who presented this petition.
1603Bp. W. Barlow Confer. Hampton Crt. (1604) 2 Agentes for the Millenarie Plaintiffes. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. II. 5 The Puritans presented their Millenary Petition, so called because it was said to be subscribed by a thousand hands. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §ii. 464 The Millenary Petition..which was presented to James the First..by nearly eight hundred clergymen.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or those believing in the millennium.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663) 50 He said there should be the term of a Millenary feast allotted for marriage. 1651Jer. Taylor Serm. Summer Half-yr. xii. 154 We are apt to dream that God will make his saints raigne here as kings in a millenary kingdom. 1690Baxter Kingd. Christ ii. (1691) 12 The Millenary Opinion was..early received by some followers of Papias.
b. transf. and fig.
1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. Ded. to D'chess Ormond 81 When at Your second Coming You appear, (For I foretell that Millenary Year) The sharpen'd Share shall vex the Soil no more. 1722Pope Let. R. Digby 10 Oct., 'Tis like the Kingdom of the Just upon Earth... Why will you ever, of your own accord, end such a Millenary Year in London?
B. n.
1. a. An aggregate of one thousand; esp. a continuous period of one thousand years; ten centuries.
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 10 b, Thys most deuylysh Syluestre, after the full accomplyshement of thys myllenary of yeares,..ded many tymes..make sacryfyce to y⊇ deuyll. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 11 Others doe account the same by thousands, or millinaries. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. i. 278 He conceaveth the Elementall frame shall end in the seventh or Sabbaticall millenary. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 35 Johannes Damascenus..takes seven millenaries for the entire space of the world. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 31 It [this Period of 4000 Years] fills up the Vacancies which the Silence of the Scripture has left towards the end of the Fourth Millenary. 1855J. H. Newman Callista (1890) 44 We danced through three nights, dancing the old millenary out, dancing the new millenary in. 1875E. White Life in Christ iii. xxiii. (1878) 332 If that prophetic millenary stands, by a figure of days, for years.
b. A thousandth anniversary or its celebration; a millennium.
1897F. Harrison (title) Millenary of King Alfred. 1955Times 18 Aug. 9/6 The few simple features which moulded the town in the past govern its shape still, so that, for all that it is new, it is recognizably Kassel. (The town celebrated its millenary in 1913). 1974E. Lemarchand Buried in Past vi. 114 The borough plans to celebrate its alleged Millenary in August. I say alleged, because its claim to have received a charter from King Edgar in the year 973 has been discredited for some time. 1975Church Times 14 Feb. 18/3 St. John's, Little Missenden, celebrates its millenary.
2. Hist. One of the signatories of ‘Millenary Petition’ (see A. 1 c above).
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 351 Dr. Sparke was..called to the Conference at Hampton-Court..appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries.
3. An officer in command of a thousand men.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. x. 211 The Centuriane obeied the Millenarie, that had charge of a thousande. 1598–1600Hakluyt Voyages I. 62 Ouer ten Millenaries or captains of a 1000 he [Chingis Cham] placed, as it were, a Colonel.
4. A believer in the millennium; one who holds that Christ will reign in person over the earth for a period of one thousand years.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. xxv. 264 b, In a little after there folowed the Millenaries, whiche limited the reigne of Christe to a thousande yeares. 1605Chapman, etc., Eastw. Hoe v, I have had of all sorts of men..vnder my Keyes: & almost of all Religions i' the land, as Papist, Protestant,..Millenary, Famely o' Loue,..&c. 1645R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (Bannatyne Cl.) II. 313 Send me the rest of Forbes:..I marvell I can find nothing in its index against the Millenaries: I cannot think the author a Millenarie. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 39. 1/2 The Millenaries found their Opinion upon several Texts. c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 262 The Catholic Millenaries looked forward to carnal pleasures in the Kingdom of Christ. 1860All Year Round No. 38. 270 Of Millenaries or Chiliasts there have been three classes.
▪ II. millenary, -n(d)er
obs. ff. millinery, -ner. |