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单词 chiliast
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Definition of chiliast in English:

chiliast

noun ˈkɪlɪastˈkilēˌast
  • another term for millenarian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Secular chiliasts are people who compress all of history into the moment that they are living, and strive to determine today, now, all things forever.
    • Many chiliasts believed that in the millennium all manner of physical craving would be satiated, that men would find all women beautiful, and willing to partake in carnal delights.
    • In the end, this is the argument that Origen made to his Jewish critics (and to Christian chiliasts): their view of what it means for the prophecies to be fulfilled is too restricted.
    • Even the American and European chiliasts had been influenced by Machindo.
    • When not live coding, Click lives with a trowel and four chiliasts in Dorset, Essex.
    • They are closer to the chiliasts in that they believe that Revelation 20 refers to a literal 1000 years, but they are not the violent revolutionaries as the ones before.
    • Weber has read one great slate of unhappiness, history as written by sects and prophets, millenarians, chiliasts, and televangelists.
    • Another general term for such millennialists is chiliasts.
    • The early Montanists, it turns out, were not chiliasts and were never criticized for being so.
    • Initially Luther was well received among the chiliasts, who saw him as the harbinger of a new era and defender of the ‘new age,’ the age of the Spirit and of peace.

Derivatives

  • chiliasm

  • noun ˈkɪlɪazəmˈkɪliˌæzəm
    • This teaching is known as chiliasm, from the Greek chiliasmos, meaning ‘a thousand years.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As Abdel Aziz Sachedina has noted in his Islamic Messianism, the Antichrist motif is also present in Shi'ite chiliasm.
      • At the end of the time when the cycle of chiliasms shall be exhausted, the complete paradise will come.
      • In the early church, premillennialism was called chiliasm, from the Greek term meaning 1,000 used six times in Revelation 20: 2-7.
      • When Christianity became the dominant force in religion in the West and the official religion of the Roman Empire, opposition to chiliasm became emphatic.

Origin

Late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek khiliastēs, from khilias 'a thousand years', from khilioi 'thousand'.

Definition of chiliast in US English:

chiliast

nounˈkilēˌast
  • another term for millenarian
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Initially Luther was well received among the chiliasts, who saw him as the harbinger of a new era and defender of the ‘new age,’ the age of the Spirit and of peace.
    • Many chiliasts believed that in the millennium all manner of physical craving would be satiated, that men would find all women beautiful, and willing to partake in carnal delights.
    • The early Montanists, it turns out, were not chiliasts and were never criticized for being so.
    • They are closer to the chiliasts in that they believe that Revelation 20 refers to a literal 1000 years, but they are not the violent revolutionaries as the ones before.
    • Secular chiliasts are people who compress all of history into the moment that they are living, and strive to determine today, now, all things forever.
    • Another general term for such millennialists is chiliasts.
    • In the end, this is the argument that Origen made to his Jewish critics (and to Christian chiliasts): their view of what it means for the prophecies to be fulfilled is too restricted.
    • When not live coding, Click lives with a trowel and four chiliasts in Dorset, Essex.
    • Even the American and European chiliasts had been influenced by Machindo.
    • Weber has read one great slate of unhappiness, history as written by sects and prophets, millenarians, chiliasts, and televangelists.

Origin

Late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek khiliastēs, from khilias ‘a thousand years’, from khilioi ‘thousand’.

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