millenaryn.adj.

Brit.

/mᵻˈlɛnəri/,

/ˈmɪlᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈmɪləˌnɛri/

Forms: 1500s myllenary, 1500s–1600s millenarie, 1600s millinary, 1600s– millenary. Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin millenarium, millenarius.

Etymology: As noun < post-classical Latin millenarium period of a thousand years (6th cent.), millenarius officer in command of a thousand men (5th cent.), sum of one thousand (from c1000 in British sources), millenarian heretic (1546 in a British source), use as noun of neuter and masculine singular respectively of millenarius, adjective. As adjective < post-classical Latin millenarius consisting of or containing a thousand (early 5th cent.) < classical Latin mīllēnī a thousand each ( < mīlle thousand (see milli- comb. form) + -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives, after e.g. sēnī) + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French millénaire (noun) commander of a thousand men (mid 15th cent.), period of a thousand years (1584), millenarian heretic (1662), (adjective) relating to a thousand (1617), millenarian (1662).

A. n.

a. A total sum of one thousand; esp. a continuous period of one thousand years; ten centuries.

ΘΚΠ

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

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. x^v Thys most deuylysh Syluestre, after the full accomplyshement of thys myllenary of yeares,..ded many tymes..make sacryfyce to y^e deuyll.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 11 Others doe account the same by thousands, or millinaries.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. i. 278 He conceaveth the Elementall frame shall end in the seventh or Sabbaticall millenary .

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 35 Johannes Damascenus..takes seven millenaries for the entire space of the world.

1768 G. Adams Syst. Divinity 20 It is manifest the Time of the Resurrection will be in the Sixth Millenary.

1856 J. H. Newman Callista 35 We danced through three nights, dancing the old millenary out, dancing the new millenary in.

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xxiii. 332 If that prophetic millenary stands, by a figure of days, for years.

1930 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 24 1014 The millenaries of common aspirations, strife, and suffering which mankind has lived through..have not yet given rise to a true and strong feeling of world solidarity.

1972 W. Chmielewski in F. Bordes Origin of Homo Sapiens 173 (title) The continuity and discontinuity of the evolution of archaeological cultures in central and eastern Europe between the 55th and 25th millenaries b.c.

b. A thousandth anniversary or its celebration; a millennium.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries

jubileec1386

quinquagenary1588

centenary1661

millennium1664

secular1706

coming of age1788

centennial1791

tricentenary1846

tercentenary1855

quinquennial1857

ter-millenary1864

sexcentenary1865

semi-centenary1870

bicentenary1872

septcentenary1873

quincentenary1877

sesquicentennial1880

quadricentennial1882

bicentennial1883

quatercentenary1883

tricentennial1883

tercentennial1884

quincentennial1885

octocentenary1888

quadrennial1890

quingentenary1892

octingentenary1893

ruby anniversary1893

semi-jubilee1893

septingentenary1893

millennial1896

millenary1897

quadringenary1905

quingenary1911

bimillenary1961

sesquicentenary1961

quasquicentennial1962

nongenary1966

octocentennial1994

1897 F. Harrison (title) The millenary of King Alfred.

1955 Times 18 Aug. 9/6 The town celebrated its millenary in 1913.

1974 E. 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.

1987 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 11/8 What one basically needs, really, is the feeling of the millenary, of optimism, as we move to the year 2000.

†2. An officer in command of a thousand men. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > leader or commander of 1000

millenary1555

millenier1648

chiliarch1656

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 211 The Centuriane obeied the Millenarie, that had charge of a thousande.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 62 Ouer ten Millenaries or captains of a 1000, he [sc. Chingis Cham] placed, as it were, one Colonel.

3. = millenarian n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [noun] > belief in coming of millennium > believer in

millenary1561

millenarist1645

millenarian1648

milliary1650

millenar1654

millennist1664

millennian1693

millenniary1810

millennianite1834

millenniumite1837

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

millenary1561

chiliast1611

millenarist1645

millenarian1648

milliary1650

millenar1654

Fifth-monarchy man1655

millennist1664

millennian1693

Fifth-monarchist1736

millenniary1810

millennianite1834

millennialist1835

millenniumite1837

eschatologist1877

millenarianist1971

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. xxv. f. 264^v In a little after there folowed the Millenaries, whiche limited the reigne of Christe to a thousande yeares.

1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe v. sig. H4 I haue had of all sorts of men..vnder my Keyes: & almost of all Religions i' the land, as Papist, Protestant,..Millenary, Famely o' Loue,..&c.

1645 R. Baillie Let. 5 Sept. (1841) 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.

1708 Brit. Apollo 23–25 June The Millenaries found their Opinion upon several Texts.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 262 The Catholic Millenaries looked forward to carnal pleasures in the kingdom of Christ.

1860 All Year Round 14 Jan. 270 Of Millenaries or Chiliasts there have been three classes.

1982 18th-cent. Stud. 15 458 So committed was Baxter to the Constantinian model of holy magistracy that he ran afoul of Anglican millenaries like the Cambridge Platonist Henry More.

†4. English History. Any one of the signatories of the ‘Millenary Petition’ (see sense B. 2a). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 351 D^r. Sparke was..called to the Conference at Hampton-Court..appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries.

B. adj.

a. = millenarian adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [adjective] > relating to millennium

millenary1577

millenarian1626

millenar1654

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

lasta1225

millenary1577

chiliastic1622

millenarian1626

chiliasticala1638

millenar1654

millennial1660

apocalyptic1663

Fifth-monarchical1679

millenniarya1778

millennian1790

eschatological1854

millenarist1894

millennialist1952

millenarianist1986

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. xxv. 51 He sayd there shoulde be the terme of a Millenarie feaste allotted for mariage.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xii. 154 We are apt to dream that God will make his saints raigne here as kings in a millenary kingdom.

1691 R. Baxter Glorious Kingdom of Christ ii. 12 The Millenary Opinion was..early received by some followers of Papias.

1695 H. Maurice Impartial Acct. J. Mason 41 His chiefest Friends have..assur'd me, That the Millenary-Notion was wholly owing to Mr. Wrexham.

1901 Amer. Hist. Rev. 6 436 It was only the revival of millenary dreams in the century following the Reformation which made it easy for Baronius and his contemporaries to fancy a panic in the year 1000.

1991 Renaissance Q. 44 584 He first attributes the remarkable encounter between Jewish and Christian cultures in Menasseh's era..to the role of Jews in Christian millenary thought and to the concomitant rise of Jewish messianism.

†b. Extended uses. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity > of times or places

golden?a1439

wealthyc1460

Saturnian1592

silver1659

millenary1700

heroic1793

Pericleana1822

flush1840

millennial1859

belle époque1957

1700 J. Dryden To Dutchess of Ormond in Fables sig. A3 When at Your second Coming You appear, (For I foretell that Millenary Year) The sharpen'd Share shall vex the Soil no more.

1725 A. Pope Corr. 10 Oct. (1956) II. 330 'Tis like the Kingdom of the Just upon Earth... Why will you ever, of your own accord, end such a Millenary Year in London?

a. Consisting of or relating to a thousand people, years, etc.; lasting or having lasted a thousand years, or (indefinitely) a very long time. millenary petition n. English History a petition presented by a number of Puritan ministers (represented as one thousand) to James I in London in April 1603, requesting certain changes in ecclesiastical ceremonial, etc. millenary plaintiffs n. the ministers who presented this petition.

ΘΚΠ

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

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > thousand

thousandc1000

millenary1604

milliary1753

1604 Bp. W. Barlow Summe Conf. at Hampton Court 2 Agentes for the Millenarie Plaintiffes.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 250 Yet the Jews..gave not over complaints and petitions.., a Millenary number of Complainants there were.

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (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.

1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins iii. 13 The millenary Sestertium..is marked with a line cross the top thus HS.

1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 5 The Puritans presented their Millenary Petition, so called because it was said to be subscribed by a thousand hands.

1783 W. Cowper Let. 30 Nov. (1981) II. 186 I have wonder'd 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.

1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (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.

1841 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. ii. 67 The millenary period of Greek and Roman domination.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §2. 464 The Millenary Petition..which was presented to James the First..by nearly eight hundred clergymen.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May 6/1 In 1886 was the millenary commemoration of the Domesday Book.

1931 tr. B. Mussolini in T. Sillani What is Fascism & Why? 174 The millenary monuments of our history stand out gigantic in their solitude.

1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 159 A natural millenary bridge which in the dying sun with air so clear looked like the youngest, newest bridge imaginable.

1986 Punch 16 July 58/1 Although he mustered millenary forces for its Munich premier in 1910, the composer was no keener than the Advertising Standards Authority on his work's over-weening title [sc. the Symphony of a Thousand].

†b. Commanding one thousand men. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [adjective] > commanding 1000

millenary1608

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 274 There were sixe hundred tribunes or millenarie officers.

1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia 167 Cyrus commaunded the Persian millenarie Colonels..to come unto him.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	millenary
释义	millenaryn.adj. Brit. /mᵻˈlɛnəri/, /ˈmɪlᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈmɪləˌnɛri/ Forms: 1500s myllenary, 1500s–1600s millenarie, 1600s millinary, 1600s– millenary. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin millenarium, millenarius. Etymology: As noun < post-classical Latin millenarium period of a thousand years (6th cent.), millenarius officer in command of a thousand men (5th cent.), sum of one thousand (from c1000 in British sources), millenarian heretic (1546 in a British source), use as noun of neuter and masculine singular respectively of millenarius, adjective. As adjective < post-classical Latin millenarius consisting of or containing a thousand (early 5th cent.) < classical Latin mīllēnī a thousand each ( < mīlle thousand (see milli- comb. form) + -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives, after e.g. sēnī) + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French millénaire (noun) commander of a thousand men (mid 15th cent.), period of a thousand years (1584), millenarian heretic (1662), (adjective) relating to a thousand (1617), millenarian (1662). A. n. 1. a. A total sum of one thousand; esp. a continuous period of one thousand years; ten centuries. ΘΚΠ 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 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. x^v Thys most deuylysh Syluestre, after the full accomplyshement of thys myllenary of yeares,..ded many tymes..make sacryfyce to y^e deuyll. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 11 Others doe account the same by thousands, or millinaries. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. i. 278 He conceaveth the Elementall frame shall end in the seventh or Sabbaticall millenary . View more context for this quotation 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 35 Johannes Damascenus..takes seven millenaries for the entire space of the world. 1768 G. Adams Syst. Divinity 20 It is manifest the Time of the Resurrection will be in the Sixth Millenary. 1856 J. H. Newman Callista 35 We danced through three nights, dancing the old millenary out, dancing the new millenary in. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xxiii. 332 If that prophetic millenary stands, by a figure of days, for years. 1930 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 24 1014 The millenaries of common aspirations, strife, and suffering which mankind has lived through..have not yet given rise to a true and strong feeling of world solidarity. 1972 W. Chmielewski in F. Bordes Origin of Homo Sapiens 173 (title) The continuity and discontinuity of the evolution of archaeological cultures in central and eastern Europe between the 55th and 25th millenaries b.c. b. A thousandth anniversary or its celebration; a millennium. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries jubileec1386 quinquagenary1588 centenary1661 millennium1664 secular1706 coming of age1788 centennial1791 tricentenary1846 tercentenary1855 quinquennial1857 ter-millenary1864 sexcentenary1865 semi-centenary1870 bicentenary1872 septcentenary1873 quincentenary1877 sesquicentennial1880 quadricentennial1882 bicentennial1883 quatercentenary1883 tricentennial1883 tercentennial1884 quincentennial1885 octocentenary1888 quadrennial1890 quingentenary1892 octingentenary1893 ruby anniversary1893 semi-jubilee1893 septingentenary1893 millennial1896 millenary1897 quadringenary1905 quingenary1911 bimillenary1961 sesquicentenary1961 quasquicentennial1962 nongenary1966 octocentennial1994 1897 F. Harrison (title) The millenary of King Alfred. 1955 Times 18 Aug. 9/6 The town celebrated its millenary in 1913. 1974 E. 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. 1987 Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 11/8 What one basically needs, really, is the feeling of the millenary, of optimism, as we move to the year 2000. †2. An officer in command of a thousand men. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > leader or commander of 1000 millenary1555 millenier1648 chiliarch1656 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 211 The Centuriane obeied the Millenarie, that had charge of a thousande. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 62 Ouer ten Millenaries or captains of a 1000, he [sc. Chingis Cham] placed, as it were, one Colonel. 3. = millenarian n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [noun] > belief in coming of millennium > believer in millenary1561 millenarist1645 millenarian1648 milliary1650 millenar1654 millennist1664 millennian1693 millenniary1810 millennianite1834 millenniumite1837 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse > believer in millenary1561 chiliast1611 millenarist1645 millenarian1648 milliary1650 millenar1654 Fifth-monarchy man1655 millennist1664 millennian1693 Fifth-monarchist1736 millenniary1810 millennianite1834 millennialist1835 millenniumite1837 eschatologist1877 millenarianist1971 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. xxv. f. 264^v In a little after there folowed the Millenaries, whiche limited the reigne of Christe to a thousande yeares. 1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe v. sig. H4 I haue had of all sorts of men..vnder my Keyes: & almost of all Religions i' the land, as Papist, Protestant,..Millenary, Famely o' Loue,..&c. 1645 R. Baillie Let. 5 Sept. (1841) 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. 1708 Brit. Apollo 23–25 June The Millenaries found their Opinion upon several Texts. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 262 The Catholic Millenaries looked forward to carnal pleasures in the kingdom of Christ. 1860 All Year Round 14 Jan. 270 Of Millenaries or Chiliasts there have been three classes. 1982 18th-cent. Stud. 15 458 So committed was Baxter to the Constantinian model of holy magistracy that he ran afoul of Anglican millenaries like the Cambridge Platonist Henry More. †4. English History. Any one of the signatories of the ‘Millenary Petition’ (see sense B. 2a). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 351 D^r. Sparke was..called to the Conference at Hampton-Court..appearing in the behalf of the Millinaries. B. adj. 1. a. = millenarian adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > doctrine of human perfectibility > [adjective] > relating to millennium millenary1577 millenarian1626 millenar1654 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [adjective] > apocalypse lasta1225 millenary1577 chiliastic1622 millenarian1626 chiliasticala1638 millenar1654 millennial1660 apocalyptic1663 Fifth-monarchical1679 millenniarya1778 millennian1790 eschatological1854 millenarist1894 millennialist1952 millenarianist1986 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. xxv. 51 He sayd there shoulde be the terme of a Millenarie feaste allotted for mariage. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xii. 154 We are apt to dream that God will make his saints raigne here as kings in a millenary kingdom. 1691 R. Baxter Glorious Kingdom of Christ ii. 12 The Millenary Opinion was..early received by some followers of Papias. 1695 H. Maurice Impartial Acct. J. Mason 41 His chiefest Friends have..assur'd me, That the Millenary-Notion was wholly owing to Mr. Wrexham. 1901 Amer. Hist. Rev. 6 436 It was only the revival of millenary dreams in the century following the Reformation which made it easy for Baronius and his contemporaries to fancy a panic in the year 1000. 1991 Renaissance Q. 44 584 He first attributes the remarkable encounter between Jewish and Christian cultures in Menasseh's era..to the role of Jews in Christian millenary thought and to the concomitant rise of Jewish messianism. †b. Extended uses. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > characterized by prosperity > of times or places golden?a1439 wealthyc1460 Saturnian1592 silver1659 millenary1700 heroic1793 Pericleana1822 flush1840 millennial1859 belle époque1957 1700 J. Dryden To Dutchess of Ormond in Fables sig. A3 When at Your second Coming You appear, (For I foretell that Millenary Year) The sharpen'd Share shall vex the Soil no more. 1725 A. Pope Corr. 10 Oct. (1956) II. 330 'Tis like the Kingdom of the Just upon Earth... Why will you ever, of your own accord, end such a Millenary Year in London? 2. a. Consisting of or relating to a thousand people, years, etc.; lasting or having lasted a thousand years, or (indefinitely) a very long time. millenary petition n. English History a petition presented by a number of Puritan ministers (represented as one thousand) to James I in London in April 1603, requesting certain changes in ecclesiastical ceremonial, etc. millenary plaintiffs n. the ministers who presented this petition. ΘΚΠ 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 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > thousand thousandc1000 millenary1604 milliary1753 1604 Bp. W. Barlow Summe Conf. at Hampton Court 2 Agentes for the Millenarie Plaintiffes. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 250 Yet the Jews..gave not over complaints and petitions.., a Millenary number of Complainants there were. a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (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. 1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins iii. 13 The millenary Sestertium..is marked with a line cross the top thus HS. 1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 5 The Puritans presented their Millenary Petition, so called because it was said to be subscribed by a thousand hands. 1783 W. Cowper Let. 30 Nov. (1981) II. 186 I have wonder'd 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. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (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. 1841 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. ii. 67 The millenary period of Greek and Roman domination. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §2. 464 The Millenary Petition..which was presented to James the First..by nearly eight hundred clergymen. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May 6/1 In 1886 was the millenary commemoration of the Domesday Book. 1931 tr. B. Mussolini in T. Sillani What is Fascism & Why? 174 The millenary monuments of our history stand out gigantic in their solitude. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 159 A natural millenary bridge which in the dying sun with air so clear looked like the youngest, newest bridge imaginable. 1986 Punch 16 July 58/1 Although he mustered millenary forces for its Munich premier in 1910, the composer was no keener than the Advertising Standards Authority on his work's over-weening title [sc. the Symphony of a Thousand]. †b. Commanding one thousand men. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [adjective] > commanding 1000 millenary1608 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 274 There were sixe hundred tribunes or millenarie officers. 1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia 167 Cyrus commaunded the Persian millenarie Colonels..to come unto him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1551
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