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Chiliastic

Chiliastic \Chili*astic\, a. Millenarian. ``The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors.''
--J. A. Alexander.

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chiliastic

a. Pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity; millenarian.

WordNet
chiliastic

adj. relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness [syn: millenarian]

Usage examples of "chiliastic".

Or were those western Christians Ebionitic who, in the fourth century still clung to very realistic Chiliastic hopes, who, in fact, regarded their Christianity as consisting in these?