Definizione monolingua

millenarian

millenarian (plural millenarians)

1. A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium, an Adventist.

millenarian (comparative more millenarian, superlative most millenarian)

1. (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ. [from 17th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 699:

     Franciscans coming form Iberia were particularly prone to the millenarian enthusiasm which gripped southern Europe around 1500, and which the Franciscan Order had so long fostered. They believed that they were living in the End Times [...].

2. Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming radical change to existing world order; utopian, apocalyptic. [from 20th c.]
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Of or pertaining to a thousand years

Definizione dizionario millenarian

millenario

Altri significati:

Of or pertaining to the millennium

Of or pertaining to a thousand years

A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium, an Adventist.