chiliasm
81chil|i|as|tic — «KIHL ee AS tihk», adjective. of or having to do with chiliasm: »The primitive Church…for the first two or three centuries was essentially chiliastic (Contemporary Review) …
82chil|i|ast — «KIHL ee ast», noun. a person who believes in chiliasm; millenarian. ╂[< Greek chīliast ] …
83COSTA, ISAÄC DA — (1798–1860), Dutch poet and writer. The precocious offspring of a distinguished Sephardi family in Amsterdam, Isaäc da Costa was brought up in the moderately Enlightened milieu that characterized the Portuguese Jewish elite of the early 19th… …
