chiliast
(ˈkɪlɪəst)
[mod. ad. L. chiliasta (Augustine), ad. Gr. χιλιαστής. In mod.F. chiliaste.]
One who holds that Christ will reign in person on earth for a thousand years; a believer in the millennium; a millenarian.
| 1611 W. Sclater Key (1629) 324 Agreed on all sides, except the Chiliasts. 1641 Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xiv. 64 These the new Chiliastes. 1647 Hist. Anabaptists 52 All Anabaptists were and are still Chiliasts, expounding literally that Kingdome of a thousand years of Revel. xx. 6 to be a temporall Kingdome. 1855 Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iv. i. 171 The Talmudic Jews and..the Chiliasts of the early ages. 1858 Masson Milton I. 103. |
| attrib. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 90 The opinion of the Jews and Chiliast Christians. |