milliary

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin milliarium. See milliary (adjective).

Noun

milliary (plural milliaries)

1. A milestone.

Adjective

milliary (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
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     A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “milliary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)