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chaldean
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 Chaldeans.
Nestorian.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
with + -an + Latin Chaldaeus, from Greek Khaldaios, from Aramaic Kaldaie, from Akkadian (mat)Kaldu "the Chaldeans."\n
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.
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 in the start of the Christian church 1st centuries BC and AD.
- Historical Babylon, particularly from a later Greek and Jewish perspective
- Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, a Neo-Aramaic dialect closely related to Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, originating from Syriac spoken in northern Iraq, and the Assyrian Christian communities worldwide.
- "Chaldean script", sometimes used (erroneously) to refer to the Syriac alphabet
- Chaldean Rite, an East Syrian Rite
- Chaldean Christians, Assyrian adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church
- Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church
- Chaldean Syrian Church, title used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India
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.