a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or holding the doctrine of the millennium; millenarian.
1675. Cave, Antiq. Apostol. (1702), 48. His millennary or chiliastick notions.
1710. R. Ward, Life H. More, 182. That no one may … have any Fabulous and Chiliastick Dreams or Affrights concerning it.
1850. S. Maitland, Eruvin (ed. 2), 169. Whether Cerinthus held the Chiliastic doctrine.
1870. Contemp. Rev., XV. 292. The primitive Church … for the first two or three centuries was essentially chiliastic.
