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One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.

Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

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.

One who believes in the millennium. [Obs.] Johnson.

apter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.

imitation. The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The habit mimic, and the mien belie. Dryden.

willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief. A fool uttereth all his mind. Prov. xxix. 11. Being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling her mind. Shak.

Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. [Obs.] Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers.

A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief. Bp. Hall.

or the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers. Addis & Arnold.

An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent.

A believer in monism.

One who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc.

The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.

One who believes that there is but one God.

ngraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.