The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millenary \Mil"le*na*ry\, a. [L. millenarius, fr. milleni a thousand each, fr. mille a thousand: cf. F. mill['e]naire. See Mile.] Consisting of a thousand; millennial.
Millenary \Mil"le*na*ry\, n.
The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a
Millenarian.``During that millenary.''
--Hare.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"consisting of a thousand," 1570s, from Latin millenarius (see millennium).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years. 2 Of or pertaining to a millennium; millenarian.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium
relating to or consisting of 1000
Wikipedia
Millenary is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire. He won the St. Leger Stakes in 2000, and, unusually for a Classic winner, stayed in training until the age of eight, winning many important races over middle and long distances.
Usage examples of "millenary".
States had been troubled by divers ill-intentioned persons pretending to have received revelations from another World, and professing to produce demonstrations whereby they had instigated to frenzy both themselves and others, it had been for this cause unanimously resolved by the Grand Council that on the first day of each millenary, special injunctions be sent to the Prefects in the several districts of Flatland, to make strict search for such misguided persons, and without formality of mathematical examination, to destroy all such as were Isosceles of any degree, to scourge and imprison any regular Triangle, to cause any Square or Pentagon to be sent to the district Asylum, and to arrest any one of higher rank, sending him straightway to the Capital to be examined and judged by the Council.
The refurbished ship would be the centerpiece of the millenary celebrations Governor Tom Traynor had scheduled to inaugurate the year 2000 in Texas.
This work of Master Leonardo held the clues that would allow them to end the millenary quest for the true religion.
It is to be a monument to the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian basin, built to honour its millenary year, already past, although the monument is not completed.
The cathedral, with its arches and slender spires, rose before them in all its millenary splendor, dazzling and proud.
This Millenary Petition, named after its thousand signatures, was the seed from which the new translation of the Bible would grow.
Lewis Pickering, who had rushed to find James in Scotland and who had helped organise the Millenary Petition: both Emmanuel men.
The coadunation of the Simbiari took several galactic millenaries to accomplish, and they are still not fully enfolded in Unity.
They had not had a honeymoon in more than five millenaries, and its glow stayed with them as they neared the journey's end and climbed reluctantly out of the connubial vat of glycerin, imidazolidinyl urea, and iso-yohimbine.
They were to go themselves, without the usual support crew consisting of a mixed bag of Milieu races, and perform an update assessment of the fourth Landa planet, which they had surveyed many Galactic millenaries ago.
The blast wave had swept past Landa exactly two Galactic millenaries ago [5476 Earth years].
The killing technique is curiously reminiscent of that of the so-called Vampires of Shigoomith-4, a preemergent race that most fortunately extirpated itself before attaining interstellar travel some forty-two Galactic millenaries ago.