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chiliad|ˈkɪlɪəd|
[ad. L. chilias, -ad-, a. Gr. χιλιάς, χιλιάδ-ος, f. χίλιοι thousand. Cf. F. chiliade.]
1. A group of 1000 (things); a thousand.
1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 114 With a chiliade of crosse Fortunes. 1656Sanderson Serm. (1689) 490 Decads, Centuries, Chiliads of novel Tenents, brought in in this last Age. 1773Horsley in Phil. Trans. LXIV. 300 Chiliads of fathom. 1876T. Le M. Douse Grimm's L. §54. 126 Centuries, perhaps..chiliads of years before Christ.
†b. esp. of logarithmic tables. Obs.
[1617H. Briggs (title) Logarithmorum Chilias prima.] 1675Gregory in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 268 A table of logarithms, from the first chiliad, true to more places than any yet attempted. 1695Phil. Trans. XIX. 61 Briggs's first Twenty Chiliads of Logarithms. 1721–1800Bailey s.v., Tables of Logarithms are often called Chiliads.
2. A period of 1000 years.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 220 The world then in the Seventh Chiliad will be assumed up into God. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 301 After some time, some Centuries, or even Chiliads. 1868G. Macdonald Seaboard Parish III. ii. 32 The scars and dints of centuries, of chiliads of stubborn resistance.
b. esp. The ‘thousand years’ mentioned in Rev. xx. 1–5; the millennium. rare.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. i. iv. (1852) 330 'Tis evident from Justin Martyr, that this doctrine of the Chiliad was in his days embraced among all orthodox Christians. 1871G. Macdonald Wks. Fancy & Imag. iv. 104 Who in the chiliad sees the day, shall feel No anxious heart.
Hence ˈchiliadal, chiliˈadic adjs., of or belonging to a chiliad or thousand years.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 115 Another chiliadal repetition of the four ages. 1854Chamb. Jrnl. I. 40 We..make no pretensions to decide upon the completion of the chiliadic periods. |