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chaldean
Word definitions for chaldean in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general. n. 1 A native of Chaldea; a Chaldee. 2 A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, a uniate church of the Roman Catholic Church. 3 (context biblical English) A diviner or astrologer. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
with + -an + Latin Chaldaeus , from Greek Khaldaios , from Aramaic Kaldaie , from Akkadian (mat)Kaldu "the Chaldeans."\n
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chaldean (or Kaldani or Kaldean) may refer to: Chaldea ("the Chaldees"), Hellenistic designation for a part of southeast Babylonia between the 9th and 6th centuries BC Neo-Babylonian Empire Ancient Mesopotamian religion Chaldean Oracles , played a role ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaldean \Chal*de"an\, a. [L. Chaldaeus.] Of or pertaining to Chaldea. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Chaldea. A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the ...
Usage examples of chaldean.
Chinese language is clearly related to the Chaldean, and that both the Chinese characters and the cuneiform alphabet are degenerate descendants of an original hieroglyphical alphabet.
Such was the form of the earth according to the authors of the Accadian magical formulae and the Chaldean astrologers of after years.
Those in the Word are the wars which the children of Israel waged with various nations, Amorites, Moabites, Philistines, Syrians, Egyptians, Chaldeans and Assyrians.
I have done a little research on a notion of mine that there are Chaldean elements in the Cymric language, and this seems to bear me out.
Hieroglyphics preceded by symbols of Indians, Persians, and Chaldeans, 372-l.
Proclus, the Platonic philosopher, connects them with the science of astronomy--a science which, he adds, the Egyptians derived from the Chaldeans.
This, to be brief, was the recognized conventional mode of expressing a particular primitive truth or mystery from the days of the Chaldeans to those of the Gnostics, or from one extremity of the civilized world to the other.
After speaking of the last nine antediluvian kings, the Chaldean priest continues thus.
In those respects wherein the Chaldean legend, evidently the older form of the tradition, differs from the Biblical record, we see that in each instance we approach nearer to Atlantis.
The Chaldean legend represents not a mere rain-storm, but a tremendous cataclysm.
Deluge legends of other nations will throw light upon the Biblical and Chaldean records of that great event.
Biblical history, Chaldean, Iranian, and Greek legends signify nothing, and that even religious pilgrimages and national festivities were based upon a myth.
The silence of all other myths of the Pharaonic religion on this head render it very likely that the above is merely a foreign tradition, recently introduced, and no doubt of Asiatic and Chaldean origin.
America traditions of the Deluge coming infinitely nearer to that of the Bible and the Chaldean religion than among any people of the Old World.
Alfred Maury says, American traditions of the Deluge coming nearer to that of the Bible and the Chaldean record than those of any people of the Old World.