24 August 2017
millenary
[mil-uh-ner-ee]
adjective
1. consisting of or pertaining to a thousand, especially a thousand years.
2. pertaining to the millennium.
noun, plural millenaries.
3. an aggregate of a thousand.
4. millennium.
5. millenarian.
Origin of millenary
Late Latin
1540-1550; < Late Latin millēnārius consisting of a thousand, equivalent to millēn(ī) a thousand each ( Latin mill(e) thousand + -ēnī distributive suffix) + -ārius -ary
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Examples from the Web for millenary
Historical Examples
Many legends illustrate the incapacity of the first millenary to realise the relationship between the sexes in any other sense.
The Evolution of Love
Emil Lucka
At Hertford, a pageant began in commemoration of the millenary of the town.
The Annual Register 1914
Anonymous
The millenary Petition asked only some changes in the ritual of the Church and certain moderate reforms.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
Robert S. Rait
Least of all is any mysterious virtue to be attached to the millenary date with which I begin.
The Ancient East
D. G. Hogarh
The fourth is the Jaik or Rhymnus, on each bank of which a millenary commands.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. I
Robert Kerr
In the millenary year he presented a magnificent silver-mounted horn to the Mayor and Corporation, as guardians of the city.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893
Various
Anagram
learn limy
early limn
rally mine
manly rile
Today’s quote
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
– William Wilberforce
On this day
24 August 79AD – eruption of Mt Vesuvius, Italy, completely destroying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The cities were buried under approximately 75m of tephra. The initial eruption produced a cloud of ash and pumice ranging from 15km to 30km high. It is estimated that 16,000 people perished.
24 August 479 – Fall of the Roman Empire as Visigoths conquer Rome.
24 August 1759 – birth of William Wilberforce. English politician, philanthropist and leader of the slave trade abolition movement. In 1785 he became an evangelical Christian, which transformed his life to focus on philanthropy and human rights. For 20 years he pursued the abolition of slavery, eventually culminating in the passage of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807. Died 29 July 1833.
24 August 1936 – establishment of the Australian Antarctic Territory.
24 August 1954 – Communist Party outlawed in the United States with the passing of the Communist Control Act.
24 August 1995 – Microsoft launches Windows 95. Bill Gates is embarrassed during a demonstration of the product, when his audience experiences the infamous ‘blue screen of death’.