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Chaldaic

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[kal-dey-ik] / kælˈdeɪ ɪk /

noun

  1. Chaldean.


Etymology

Origin of Chaldaic

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

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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 O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

His father had started on the curious Chaldaic recitative that wound it up: One only kid, one only kid, which my father bought for two zuzim.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

This—in your famous scribble, It was ever a cryptic fist, Cuneiform or Chaldaic Meanings held in a mist.

From Lundy's Lane and Other Poems by Scott, Duncan Campbell

Her acts are as ancient as the seventh century; but not sufficiently authentic: nor are those given us in Chaldaic by Stephen Assemani of a better stamp.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

I will directly speak more at length of vestiges of the Mayas in Babylon, when explaining by means of the American Maya, the meaning and probable etymology of the names of the Chaldaic divinities.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus

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