chiliad
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A thousand; the numbers from one multiple of a thousand to the next.
- noun The period of a thousand years.
Examples
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During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh in 1617 he accordingly published the first chiliad of his logarithms.
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The subject rose into importance again at the approaching close of the first chiliad of Christianity, but soon died away as the excitement of that ominous epoch passed with equal disappointment to the hopes and the fears of the believers.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Note
The word 'chiliad' comes a Greek word meaning 'thousand'.
