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Chiliad  n.  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."






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"Chiliad" Quotes from Famous Books



... The nonsense of Gunther and the modern Greeks concerning this columna fatidica, is unworthy of notice; but it is singular enough, that fifty years before the Latin conquest, the poet Tzetzes, (Chiliad, ix. 277) relates the dream of a matron, who saw an army in the forum, and a man sitting on the column, clapping his hands, and uttering a loud exclamation. * Note: We read in the "Chronicle of the Conquest of Constantinople, and of the Establishment of the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon



Words linked to "Chiliad" :   k, thousand, millenary, m, yard, grand



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