The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adventist \Ad"vent*ist\, n.
One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look
for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also
Second Adventists.
--Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one of a religious denomination that believes in or looks for the early second coming of Christ," 1843; see advent + -ist. Church Latin adventus was applied to the coming of the Savior, both the first or the anticipated second, hence Adventist was a name applied to millenarian sects, especially and originally the Millerites (U.S.).
Wikipedia
Adventist or adventists may refer to:
- Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday as Sabbath
- Adventism, a branch of Protestantism with origins in the 19th century American Protestant revival known as the Second Great Awakening
Usage examples of "adventist".
Among the Rebels, there were chaplains representing all religions, from Hindu to Seventh-Day Adventists.
Dustbowly-looking Seventh-Day Adventist who never once pressed Brucie to speak, probably out of sympathy, probably sympathizing with the searing pain the opaque-eyed child must have felt over not only giving his Mama a lethal Xmas present but over then having to watch his widowed asymetrical Pop cave psycho-spiritually in after the wake, watching Mr.
Babs and her husband were, after all, Seventh-Day Adventists, and as far as she was concerned, the Catholics and the Baptists deserved just what they got-Betty La -La included.
This was the greatest massacre of Americans by an American since two years earlier, when the federal government decided to take out the compound of a Seventh-Day Adventist cult near Waco, Texas.
For all I know, you could be Catholic or Seventh-Day Adventist or even Jewish.
Last week it was a Catholic Church, the week before the Seventh-day Adventist, the week before another denomination.