Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
chalcedonic . - Of or pertaining to Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia, opposite Constantinople, or to the council held there and its teachings.
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Examples
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Mr. Beckford then, taking off a glass cover, showed us what is, I should imagine, one of the greatest curiosities in existence, a vase about ten inches high, composed of one entire block of chalcedonian onyx.
Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath Henry Venn Lansdown
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Mr. Beckford then, taking off a glass cover, showed us what is, I should imagine, one of the greatest curiosities in existence, a vase about ten inches high, composed of one entire block of chalcedonian onyx.
Recollections of the Late William Beckford Lansdown, Henry Venn 1893
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