Chiliastic

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kɪ.liˈa.stɪk/
• Rhymes: -æstɪk

Origin

From chiliast + -ic.

Full definition of chiliastic

Adjective

1. Pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity; millenarian.
• 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 139:The social anthropologist can recognise in the millenarian sentiments of the Interregnum a parallel phenomenon to the chiliastic movements which still occur in the underdeveloped countries of today.

Related terms

• chiliasm