Crossword clues for chiliad
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chiliad \Chil"i*ad\, n. [Gr. chilia`s, chiliado`s, fr. chi`lioi a thousand.] A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
The world, then in the seventh chiliad, will be assumed
up unto God.
--Sir. T.
More.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"group of 1,000" (of the same sort), 1590s, from Latinized form of Greek khiliados, from khilioi "a thousand; the number 1,000" (see chiliasm).\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 a group of 1000 things 2 a period of 1000 years; a millennium
WordNet
n. the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, G, grand, thou, yard]
Usage examples of "chiliad".
The scholars of the present age may still enjoy the benefit of the philosophical commonplace book of Stobaeus, the grammatical and historical lexicon of Suidas, the Chiliads of Tzetzes, which comprise six hundred narratives in twelve thousand verses, and the commentaries on Homer of Eustathius, archbishop of Thessalonica, who, from his horn of plenty, has poured the names and authorities of four hundred writers.
He confounds myriads with chiliads, and gives Cantacuzene no more than 5000 hogs.
But when chance brings them near the surface they sprout no matter how old they may be, so that the flowers of a chiliad past are seen to bloom again.
I drank my fill, and for perhaps half a watch followed the water down the slope through a succession of miniature falls and tarns, wondering, as no doubt others have for countless chiliads, to observe it grown slowly larger, though it had recruited no others of its kind that I could see.
The heart that had not served him for so many chiliads ceased to beat.
Has it never struck you that mankind was richer by far, and happier too, a chiliad gone than it is now?
To the ice of ten chiliads will be added the ice of the winter now almost upon us, and the two will embrace like brothers and begin their march upon these northern lands.
For a moment I considered taking his batardeau to replace the knife I had lost so many chiliads ago, but the thought of wielding a poisoned blade was repugnant.
The scholars of the present age may still enjoy the benefit of the philosophical commonplace book of Stobaeus, the grammatical and historical lexicon of Suidas, the Chiliads of Tzetzes, which comprise six hundred narratives in twelve thousand verses, and the commentaries on Homer of Eustathius, archbishop of Thessalonica, who, from his horn of plenty, has poured the names and authorities of four hundred writers.
Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun, the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges, twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights, the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygeyed the mayvalleys of Knockmaroon, and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans have brittled the tooath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Firebugs and the Joynts have thrown up jerrybuilding to the Kevanses and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year!