Definition of "chiliad" []

• A group that contains 1,000 elements. (noun)
• One thousand years; a millennium. (noun)

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• "During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh in 1617 he accordingly published the first chiliad of his logarithms."
• "The subject rose into importance again at the approaching close of the first chiliad of Christianity, but soon died away as the excitement of that ominous epoch passed with equal disappointment to the hopes and the fears of the believers."
• "African kingdom of Nimrod, which cannot be placed later than in the seventh chiliad."