chiliadn.

Brit.

/ˈkɪlɪad/,

/ˈkɪlɪəd/, U.S.

/ˈkɪliˌæd/

Etymology: < Latin chilias, -ad-, < Greek χιλιάς, χιλιάδος, < χίλιοι thousand. Compare French chiliade.

a. A group of 1000 (things); a thousand.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > thousand > group of a thousand

chiliad1598

milliad1616

1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 14 With a Chiliade of crosse Fortunes.

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 188 Decads, Centuries, Chiliads of novel Tenents, brought in in this last age.

1773 S. Horsley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 300 Chiliads of fathom.

1876 T. Le M. Douse Grimm's Law §54. 126 Centuries, perhaps..chiliads of years before Christ.

†b. esp. of logarithmic tables. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table

compute manual1483

tariff1591

sexagenary table1594

table of multiplication1594

long measure1623

scale of numbers1630

Rudolphine Tables1635

multiplication table1657

chiliad1675

sexagesimal table1685

nautical card1700

pence table1706

numeration tablea1743

tablebook1755

ready reckoner1757

calculator1784

tables1828

times table1902

log tablec1935

1617 H. Briggs (title) Logarithmorum Chilias prima.]

1675 J. Gregory Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 268 A table of logarithms, from the first chiliad, true to more places than any yet attempted.

1695 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 19 61 Briggs's first Twenty Chiliads of Logarithms.

1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Tables of Logarithms are often called Chiliads.

a. A period of 1000 years.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years

hendecadOE

a week of yearsa1382

weekc1384

Olympiada1387

lustre1387

yearc1425

millenary1551

prenticeship1553

septenary1576

lustrum1590

quinquennal1590

seventy1590

septimane1603

quinquennie1606

threescore (years) and tena1616

duodecad1621

quinquennium1621

jubilee1643

quadrenniala1646

chiliad1653

septennary1659

septennium1660

triennial1661

millennium1664

tetraëterid1678

octennial1679

duodenary1681

quadrennium1779

septenniad1836

quinquenniad1842

milliad1843

tricentenary1846

triennium1847

vicennium1847

bimillenary1850

lustration1853

sexennium1858

septennate1874

quinquennial1877

pentad1880

sexennate1898

aeon1960

1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 220 The world then in the Seventh Chiliad will be assumed up into God.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 301 After some time, some Centuries, or even Chiliads.

1868 G. MacDonald Seaboard Parish III. ii. 32 The scars and dints of centuries, of chiliads of stubborn resistance.

b. esp. The ‘thousand years’ mentioned in Revelation xx. 1–5; the millennium. rare.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse > millennium

millenniuma1638

chiliad1702

millenniary1865

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. i. iv. 56/2 'Tis evident from Justin Martyr, that this Doctrine of the Chiliad, was in his Days embraced, among all Orthodox Christians.

1871 G. Macdonald Wks. Fancy & Imagination IV. 104 Who in the chiliad sees the day, shall feel No anxious heart.

Derivatives

ˈchiliadal adj.

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the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years

millenary1604

triennal1611

Olympiadical1638

decennal1648

decennial1656

tricennial1656

octodesexcentenary1677

sexmillennial1690

sexmillenary1728

quinquennial1746

milliary1753

decennalian1794

millennial1807

chiliadal1816

enneaeteric1846

chiliadic1854

decennary1855

sexcentenary1864

millennian1873

tricentenary1882

tricentennial1883

Olympiadic1890

postmillennial1977

1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry I. 115 Another chiliadal repetition of the four ages.

chiliˈadic adj. of or belonging to a chiliad or thousand years.

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