Chaldaic

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[kal-day-ik] / kælˈdeɪ ɪk /

noun

1. Chaldean.

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Etymology

Origin of Chaldaic

< Latin Chaldaicus < Greek Chaldaïkós. See Chaldean, -ic

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Chaldaic

And to him bending over a copy of the mystic Zohar,—that thirteenth century Cabalistic classic, forged in Chaldaic by a Jew of Spain, which paved the way for the Turkish Messiah—was brought a little child.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

From his early years a close student of the Bible, he had learned Chaldaic and Hebrew for its better study; every day on his knees he read a chapter of the Holy Word.

From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

He now obtained a knowledge of the Chaldaic, Syriac and Arabic; and acquired a taste for divinity and ecclesiastical antiquity, by studying the Greek fathers of the first four ages of the church.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous

Under the early Roman Empire the Chaldaic art exercised and enjoyed considerable influence and reputation, if it was often subject to sudden persecutions.

From The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams

The first and second Gospels give the words of the cry from the Chaldaic differently from Justin, from the version of the LXX., and from each other.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

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