millenniary
English
Etymology
From millennium + -ary.[1]
Adjective
millenniary (not comparable)
- Synonym of millenarian.
- a. 1779, Augustus Toplady, “An Essay on Original Sin”, in The Gleanings of the Vintage, Being Several Essays and Meditations Selected from the Manuscripts of Periodical Papers, […], Lincoln, Lincolnshire: […] S. Simmons, Dilly, […], published 1783, →OCLC, page 35:
- Particularly Rom[ans] viii. 19, 20, 21. which I would thus render, and thus punctuate: The earneſtly wiſhful expectancy of the creation, i. e. of the brute-creation; that implicit thirſt after happineſs, wrought and kneaded into the very being of every creature endued with ſenſitive life; virtually waits, with vehement deſire, for that appointed, glorious manifeſtation of the ſons of God, which is to take place in the millenniary ſtate: […]
- 1987 January, Jean Comaroff, “The Political Mythology of Apartheid. By Leonard Thompson. […]”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 92, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, , →ISSN, →OCLC:
- They also set the terms for the millenniary process through which apartheid might engineer a racially separated but economically integrated society.
- 1999 March 12, The Herald[1], Glasgow, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 October 2025:
- Scotland: History of a Nation is one of many tomes we can expect in this momentous, millenniary and evolutionary times.
- Synonym of millennial (“relating to a millennium”).
- 2000, David L. Vagi, Coinage and History of the Roman Empire, page 328:
- millenniary celebration of Rome's foundation
- 2002, Martin Schwarz Lausten, A Church History of Denmark, page 218:
- millenniary celebration for Ansgar's arrival in Denmark
References
- ^ “millenniary, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.