Chaldee

British  

/ kælˈdiː /

noun

1. a nontechnical term for Biblical Aramaic, which was once believed to be the language of the ancient Chaldeans

2. the actual language of the ancient Chaldeans See also Chaldean

3. an inhabitant of ancient Chaldea; a Chaldean

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Example Sentences

With the help of a friend, a Dissenting minister, he learned something of geometry, mathematics and natural philosophy, and also got some smattering of the Chaldee and Syriac tongues.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

It is written partly in Hebrew and partly in Chaldee; this has led some to conclude that it is the work of different hands.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

It is a Clavis Linguæ Sanctæ, or explanation of all the Hebrew, and some Chaldee, roots, found in the Old Testament, by Nicholas Trott, in three folio volumes, written with great care and neatness.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

As all these men had been captives in Babylon, and could nowhere else be taught to write, how could these books be composed in any other than the Chaldee character?

From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Mitchell, Logan

Even the name Israel is not a Hebrew but a Chaldee word, as was fully explained by Philo Jud�us, when on his embassy to the Emperor Caligula.

From Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures by Mitchell, Logan