Dictionary

chiliastic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌkɪ.liˈæ.stɪk/ (General-American)
• [ˌkʰɪ.ɫiˈæ.stɪk] (General-American)
• /ˌkɪ.liˈa.stɪk/ (UK)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English chiliast Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English chiliastic From chiliast + -ic.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity.
   • The social anthropologist can recognise in the millenarian sentiments of the Interregnum a parallel phenomenon to the chiliastic movements which still occur in the underdeveloped countries of today. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 139:
   • In his pioneering study The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn showed how Nazism was also a chiliastic movement. 2018, John Gray, “The problem of hyper-liberalism”, in TLS:
   • The evanescent quality of Debord's later writing, his chiliastic serenity, is patent here: a voice speaking from a world one might want to make and then to live in, but also the voice of the mad professor in Eric Ambler's spy thriller Cause for Alarm. 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
   • Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult. 2012 March 5, George Monbiot, “How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Relateds

chiliasm

Synonyms

millenarian

Translations (3)

sv kiliastisk (millenarian) · de chiliastisch (millenarian) · sh hilijanski (millenarian)