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Chaldean, a. and n.|kælˈdiːən|
[f. L. Chaldæus = Gr. Χαλδαῖος Chaldean + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Chaldea or its inhabitants; hence, to occult science or magic.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. vi. §20 Whether in Daniel's prophecy of the Messiah we should compute by the Chaldean or the Julian year. 1845Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. II. 566/1 This Chaldean imposture, the substitution of grand notions of nature for a belief in God.
B. n. A native of Chaldea, esp. (as at Babylon) one skilled in occult learning, astrology, etc.; hence gen. a seer, soothsayer, astrologer. (So Gr. Χαλδαῖος, L. Chaldæus.) Also, = Chaldee n. b.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 77 The Chaldeans wer most renowmed in Astrologie that euer were anie. 1611Bible Dan. ii. 2. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 305 The feind therefore that told our Chaldean the contrary was a lying feind. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Fam. Ep. Wks. (1711) 148 How can a Chaldean, by that short minute..in which a man is born, set down the diverse changes..of his life. 1690Le Clerk's Five Lett. Insp. Holy Scriptures ii. 89 The Greek Language then was spoken in Judea, together with the antient Language which the Jews brought from Babylon, that is to say the Chaldean. 1859Rawlinson Bampton Lect. v. 23 In Daniel the Chaldæans are a special set of persons at Babylon, having a ‘learning’ and a ‘tongue’ of their own, and classed with the magicians, astrologers, etc. 1897J. H. Bridges Opus Majus R. Bacon iv. lxviii, With Hebrew went Chaldaean, and, in more distant relationship, Arabic. 1944H. van Zeller Ezekiel ii. 22 If only Chaldean could be picked up quickly.
Hence † Chalˈdeanizing ppl. a.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 278 Why might not the Chaldæanizing oracle be drawn to confesse so much? |