millenary

English

Etymology

Latin millenarius

Adjective

millenary (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.
2. Of or pertaining to a millennium; millenarian.
   • 1650, Joseph Hall, The Revelation Unrevealed:

     Surely, this operation hath this millenary doctrine had upon the hearts of men, that, though they are thereupon apt to expect an appropinquation of their Saviour for their happy advantage, yet they resolutely put off the thought of his coming to the general judgment of the world for many generations.

Noun

millenary (plural millenaries)

1. (archaic) A period of one thousand years; a millennium.

Anagrams

• minerally