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The millennium...
Millenarian
Consisting of a thousand years of or pertaining to the millennium or to the Millenarians...
Millennial
Of or pertaining to the millennium or to a thousand years as a millennial period millennial happiness...
Millennium
A period of one thousand years...
millennium bug
An error in the coding of certain computer programs which store the year component of the date as two digits assuming that the first two digits are 19 rather than as a complete number of four digits when such programs are used after January 1 2000 the date may be misinterpreted causing serious errors or total failure of the program called also year 2000 bug year 2000 problem and Y2K bug...
Premillennial
Previous to the millennium...
Gynaec Egalite
Gynaec Egalite, equality for women. 'Allergy for gynaec egalite is die hard and the millennium ahead may degenerate to 'hellenium' unless all humanity in militant unity battles for fairness to feminist rights.' Crime Against Women and Children in Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 196. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
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