1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie ii. sig. Ff^v Calcidonians also of such bignesse that whole drinking cups are made of them.

1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 801 The Calcedonian pale white, and also the hardest dun.

1758 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. I. 421 The controversy between the Monophysites and Chalcedonians is not merely a dispute about words.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlvii. 616 A parrot might be taught to repeat the words of the Chalcedonian or Monophysite creed.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 796/1 Then the Chalcedonian party would be purged from any appearance of sympathy with the errors of Nestorius.

1892 W. Bright Canons of First Four Gen. Councils 143 While..he [sc. Justellus] followed the older Latin version called the Prisca by omitting the Ephesine canons so called, he inserted the Laodicene which the Prisca omitted, and did not place the Constantinopolitan, as the Prisca did, after the Chalcedonian.

1946 E. L. Mascall Christ, Christian & Church iii. 54 No amount of discussion of our Lord's psychology can have any direct bearing on the Catholic creeds and the Chalcedonian definition.