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Chaldaism

Chaldaism \Chal"da*ism\, n. An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.

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chaldaism

n. An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.

Usage examples of "chaldaism".

The Mithriac worship, which was so extensively propagated in the West, and in which Mithra and the sun were perpetually confounded, seems to have been formed from a fusion of Zoroastrianism and Chaldaism, or the Syrian worship of the sun.

Yet the observations of Kosegarten, which Rosenmuller has given in a note, and common reason, suggest that this Chaldaism may be the native form of a much earlier dialect.

The Mithriac worship, which was so extensively propagated in the West, and in which Mithra and the sun were perpetually confounded, seems to have been formed from a fusion of Zoroastrianism and Chaldaism, or the Syrian worship of the sun.