Chal·de·an

also Chal·dae·an (kăl-dē′ən) or Chal·dee (kăl′dē′)

adj.

1. Of or relating to Chaldea or its people, language, or culture.

2. Of or relating to an Eastern Catholic church historically centered in northern Iraq and neighboring regions.

1. A member of an ancient Semitic people who ruled in Babylonia.

2. An adherent of the Chaldean church.

3. See Aramaic.

4. A person versed in occult learning.

Chal·da′ic (-dā′ĭk) adj. & n.

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There were huge, ponderous folios, and quartos, and little duodecimos, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and all other languages that either originated at the confusion of Babel or have since come into use.

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Yiddish Dictionary, Containing All of the Hebrew and Chaldaic Elements of the Yiddish Language, Illustrated with Proverbs and Idiomatic Expressions.

THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE YEHOASH BIBLE, 1922-1942

He had been recruited from Berlin by the British Museum Library in 1855 for his mastery of most European languages, Sanskrit, Rabbinics, Hebrew, Aramaic, Chaldaic, Amharic and Phoenician.

Two nineteenth-century philosemites

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