What's the difference between chiliad and chiliastic?

Chiliad


Definition:

  • (n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Driving to a violent heist with Don Johnson's Heartbeat playing on the radio, the freeway clear before you; flying a crop-dusting plane up the contour of Mount Chiliad, so that you reach the peak just as the red sun falls, sending rainbows of lens flare through your cockpit screen; clipping a police car during a chase, sending your own vehicle spinning off the overpass onto the roof of an liquor store.

Chiliastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Millenarian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Promoters of institutionalized fighting skills and chiliastic activities generally share common objectives in their search for devices to overcome adversaries by impressive means.
  • (2) Political society had rejected "the old apocalyptic and chiliastic visions", he wrote, and "in the west, among the intellectuals, the old passions are spent."

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