[ad. Gr. χιλιαρχία: cf. monarchy, heptarchy, etc.]
† 1. Government by a thousand rulers. Obs. rare.
1650. Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers, 18. Not an heptarchy, but a chiliarchy, or myriarchy might follow.
† 2. A body of a thousand men. Obs. (So in Gr.)
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., 195. The Chiliarchies also, or Regiments, as I may so call them, of the Lamb, being summed up in this number. Ibid. (1685), Para. Prophet., 358.
3. The post of chiliarch.
1840. Thirlwall, Greece, VII. lvi. 129. The chiliarchy which had been assigned to himself.
