millenary

millenary
/mil"euh ner'ee/, adj., n., pl. millenaries.
adj.
1. consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, esp. a thousand years.
2. pertaining to the millennium.
n.
3. an aggregate of a thousand.
4. millennium.
5. millenarian.
[1540-50; < LL millenarius consisting of a thousand, equiv. to millen(i) a thousand each (L mill(e) thousand + -eni distributive suffix) + -arius -ARY]

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