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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

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

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

Leaving that point, it approached the Chalcedonian land and there, after performing some sacred rite by night and burying a wooden horse, it vanished.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

The Chalcedonian creed, as is admitted by Schulz, l.c., pp.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil