Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Chaldea or its people, language, or culture.
- noun A member of an ancient Semitic people who ruled in Babylonia.
- noun A person versed in occult learning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to Chaldea, the rich plain of southern Babylonia: the name Chaldea was also often applied to the whole of that country, from the dominance of the Chaldean race over it for a long period.
- noun An inhabitant of Chaldea; specifically, a member of the Semitic race from whom Chaldea took its name, who were celebrated as warriors, astrologers, magicians, etc., and constituted the priestly caste of Babylonia.
- noun In the Bible, sometimes, an astrologer, soothsayer, or fortune-teller.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Chaldea specifically, or ancientBabylonia in general. - noun A native of
Chaldea ; aChaldee . - noun A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church, a uniate church of the Roman Catholic Church.
- noun biblical A
diviner orastrologer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture
- noun a wise man skilled in occult learning
- noun an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Syrian and Mesopotamian Catholics are now commonly called Chaldeans, or Syro-Chaldeans; the term Chaldean, which in Syriac generally meant magician or astrologer, denoted in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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BAGHDAD In between messages of love and faith, Mushtaq Zanbaqa, priest of the Holy Virgin Chaldean Catholic Church in east Baghdad, has a weekly plea for his Christian flock:
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Recent writers reserve the name Chaldean for the later period of Babylonian history -- the time when the Greeks came in contact with the Mesopotamians -- in contradistinction to the earlier periods which are revealed to us by the archæological records.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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The Chaldean is compared to a harsh usurer, and his ill-gotten treasures to heaps of pledges in the hands of a usurer.
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When the Chaldean empire was absorbed into the Achaemenid, the name Chaldean lost its meaning as the name of an ethnic group, and came to be applied to a class.
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In a brazen and nearly unbelievable move, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by warlord Masoud Barzani has prevented voting by Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) Christians of the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq.
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In a brazen and nearly unbelievable move, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by warlord Masoud Barzani has prevented voting by Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) Christians of the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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After quoting Diodorus to the effect that the Babylonian priests observed the position of certain stars in order to cast horoscopes, Thompson tells us that from a very early day the very name Chaldean became synonymous with magician.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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In the north of Iraq, the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, known as the Chaldean Sisters, provided Easter packages for 750 of the poorest families in villages outside the ancient Christian city of Zakko near the border with Syria and Turkey.
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