millennialistn.adj.

1835 C. E. Stowe Introd. Criticism of Bible I. viii. 139 So high did their zeal run, that the chiliasts (as they were called) or the millennialists, began to secede from the mother church at Alexandria.

1903 D. D. Rutledge Christ, Anti-Christ & Millennium xi. 291 One Post-Millennialist misunderstood this view.

1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 10/2 All Christians had in some sense to accept the premises of the millennialists.

1995 Mojo Feb. 68/2 There's a whole school of thought—the millennialists, the apocalyptic brigade, the right wing religious groups—who all want the world to come to an end.

1952 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 39 455 Russell was the author of a flood of millennialist tracts and articles, of which The Divine Plan of the Ages is said to have reached a circulation of almost five million copies.

1967 R. Robertson in B. R. Wilson Patterns Sectarianism ii. 72 A more strictly millennialist belief that ‘the end of all things is at hand’.

1991 Church Times 1 Feb. 14/1 A statement which Dr Boone illustrates by reference to the millennialist stance of the widely used New Schofield Reference Bible.