Word Meanings - CHILIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Chili. -- n.
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- CHILIAN
Of or pertaining to Chili. -- n. - CHILIASTIC
Millenarian. "The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors." J. A. Alexander. - CHILIAGON
A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. Barlow. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - CHILIAD
A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years. The world, then in the seventh chiliad, will be assumed up unto God. Sir. T. More. - CHILIARCHY
A body consisting of a thousand men. Mitford. - CHILIAST
One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian. - CHILIAN; CHILIARCH
The commander or chief of a thousand men. - CHILIASM
1. The millennium. 2. The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium. - TROCHILIC
OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden. - TROCHILIDIST
One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould. - TROCHILICS
The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work. Wilkins. - TROCHILI
A division of birds comprising the humming birds. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach