Chaldaic

[ kal-dey-ik ]

noun

1. Chaldean.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Chaldaic¹

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

Example Sentences

The Church herself, in the Council of Vienne, in 1311, decreed that, beside the chairs of theology, philosophy, medicine, and jurisprudence, there should be in the four principal universities, and wherever the papal court should be held, professors of Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic, and Greek.

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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.

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Papius and Polycarp, not instructed by John the son of Zebedee, but probably by John, a Presbyter of Asia Minor, 219 Paul's genuine Epistles, 214 215 Paxson, Chief-Justice, open letter to, 121 Peck, Bishop, on blood, 277 Pentateuch, date of, 97 98 100 101 Peter’s name of Chaldaic origin, 248 Phallicism not necessarily obscene, 129 135 Philo, admission of, 178 Phœnicians, date of, 109 Plato on Homer's poems, 122 Presbyterian serpent symbolism, 128 Proclus on Plato, 122 Prometheus, the god-man, 303 R Rachel sitting on the wedges, 132 Rameses II.,

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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.

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Slightly rocking the desk, he intoned the Chaldaic text and the Yiddish interpretations, listening to his own sing-song as one listens, at some distance, to a familiar voice.

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