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Definition of Chiliasts
1. chiliast [n] - See also: chiliast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiliasts
Literary usage of Chiliasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christ's Second Coming: Will it be Pre-millennial? by David Brown (1882)
"It might strengthen these remarks to advert to the view which the early chiliasts
took of the dates. They appear, for example, to have adopted universally ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1888)
"As a distinct sect the chiliasts speedily disappear from view, but their members
remained a portion of the Taborites, the development of whose opinions they ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"Among the Protestants, it was during the Thirty Years' War that the most enthusiastic
and learned chiliasts flourished, These may—broadly—be brought under ..."
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