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millennial, a. and n.|mɪˈlɛnɪəl|
Also erron. millenial.
[f. L. type *millenni-um (see millennium) + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Of a thousand years.
1807J. Barlow Columb. i. 763 Millenial cedars wave their honors wide. 1819Byron Proph. Dante iii. 11 The bloody scroll of our millennial wrongs. 1830Tennyson Kraken 6 Huge sponges of millenial growth and height. 1899D. G. Hogarth in Authority & Archæol. 231 The middle of the second millennial period b.c.
2. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or Christ's anticipated reign of a thousand years on earth.
1664H. More Exp. 7 Epist. Pref. c vij b, This is that illustrious Reign of Christ in his Millenniall Empire of Love. 1690Baxter Kingd. Christ ii. (1691) 12 The Millennial Opinion I have never been a censorious opposer of. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 703 Their [sc. the planets'] reciprocal, unselfish aid Affords an emblem of millennial love. 1825–9Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor III. xviii. 12 The last millennial glory. 1877Sparrow Serm. xxvii. 229 But in Millenial times, how will things be changed!
b. transf. and fig.
1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede vii, Every tenant was quite sure..there was to be a millennial abundance of new gates,..and returns of ten per cent. 1897Marquis of Salisbury Sp. Ho. Lords 19 Jan., You must not think that we are the victims of millennial anticipations if we hope that something may be done by an arbitration treaty.
B. n. A thousandth anniversary, or its celebration.
1896Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 1/3 In order to celebrate the millennial of Hungary with proper respect.
Hence miˈllennialist, one who believes in a millennial reign of Christ on earth (Webster 1847 citing Stowe); also as adj. miˈllennially adv., during a thousand years or during the millennium.
1851G. S. Faber Many Mansions 326 The Abyss, in which he will be millennially confined, is that proleptic Hell. 1903D. D. Rutledge Christ, Anti-Christ & Millennium xi. 291 One Post-Millennialist misunderstood this view. Ibid. 301 The reply of the Post-Millennialists is to the effect that Revelation xx. is all symbolical and..cannot be relied on. 1932A. Stewart Christianity, Communism, Adventism 5 ‘Jesus will soon be here’ said one, an ardent pre-millennialist. Ibid. xi. 111 Post-millennialists..labor with abounding hope. 1967R. Robertson in B. R. Wilson Patterns Sectarianism ii. 72 A more strictly millennialist belief that ‘the end of all things is at hand’. |