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▪ I. milliary, a. and n.|ˈmɪlɪərɪ|
Also miliary.
[ad. L. milliārius (neut. -um), f. mille thousand (paces), mile.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to the ancient Roman mile of a thousand paces; marking a mile.
1644Evelyn Diary 7 Nov., Before this was once placed a Miliary Column. 1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 136 Milliary pillars [are] erected to mark out the distance of the ways. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Spittle in the Street, Linc., It is pleasant riding from hence to Lincoln, in a country wholly champaign, or heath, with miliary stones all the way, of which some are thought to be Roman. 1860J. Newlands Carp. & Join. Assist. Index & Gloss., Milliary column, a column set up to mark distances; a milestone. Ibid. s.v. Column, The miliary column, set up as a centre from which to measure distances.
†2. Of or pertaining to a millennium. Obs.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Age, Milliary or Millenary Age, sæculum milliarium, or millenarium, on medals denotes the last year of a Millennium or thousand year.
B. n.
1. A stone or mark set up by the ancient Romans to form a point of departure in measuring distances of a thousand paces; a milestone.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. 423 London-stone..I take to haue beene a Milliarie or Milemarke. 1741–3Pococke Descr. East (1745) II. 85, I saw, about a mile from the town, an antient Roman milliary. 1865Reader 18 Mar. 313/2 He found no traces whatever of the letters, and therefore he inferred that they had never been inscribed on the milliary.
†2. A believer in the millennium. Obs.
1650Bp. Hall Rev. Unrevealed §4 The ancient heresy of the Milliaries, as Austin calls them.
▪ II. milliary
obs. form of miliary. |