Word Meanings - MILLENNIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

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• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• MILLENNIAL
  Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
• THOUSANDTH
  1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. 2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into
• PERIOD
  One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
• PERIODICALLY
  In a periodical manner.
• MILLENNIALIST
  One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
• 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
• PERIODIDE
  An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
• THOUSAND
  thusundig, thusind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. t, d, Icel. þusund, þushund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þusundi, 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. 2.
• PERIODICALNESS
  Periodicity.
• PERIODOSCOPE
  A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.
• MILLENNIALISM; MILLENNIARISM
  Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
• MILLENNIUM
  A thousand years; especially, thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth
• PERIODATE
  A salt of periodic acid.
• HAPPINESS
  1. Good luck; good fortune; prosperity. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Shak. 2. An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that
• PERIODICITY
  The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. Henfrey.
• THOUSAND LEGS
  A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
• PERIODICAL
  A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
• PERIODICALIST
  One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• ALABAMA PERIOD
  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
• CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
• NIAGARA PERIOD
  A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• TRENTON PERIOD
  A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
• PREMILLENNIAL
  , Previous to the millennium.
• SALINA PERIOD
  The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.