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Since secular-minded modern man does not understand or accept the notion of "divine," he argues, the church must find a logical but nonsupernatural equivalent of what the Chalcedonian Fathers were trying to express.

From Time Magazine Archive

This failure was in part owing to a sort of Chalcedonian blindness in the National Convention of 1787.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various

Such beautiful species as Reticulata, the Chalcedonian, and the Peacock are worth growing in pots placed in frames or in a cool greenhouse.

From The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton and Sons

Fables of Gallic or Egyptian origin are invoked to corroborate the canons of Nicene and Chalcedonian synods.

From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)

The "Chalcedonian giant," Thrasymachus, of whom we have already heard in the Phaedrus, is the personification of the Sophists, according to Plato's conception of them, in some of their worst characteristics.

From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin