chiliad

Updated: May 17, 2025

Some Radical offshoots of this medieval Millennialism we have already noticed in the "Brothers and Sisters of the Free Spirit," the Adamites, Chelcicians, and "Free Brothers." Or, from the Greek, chiliad; and hence the word chiliasm, expressing the belief in a millennium.

Ernst Viktor Zenker - Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory