NOUN
- an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king)
- an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II
How To Use Chaldea In A Sentence
- Babylonia, a part of Lower Mesopotamia, 7; excessive flatness of, 9; later name for "Shumir and Accad" and for "Chaldea," 237. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
- Chaldean Uniat liturgies the words of institution are placed after the first part of this prayer), breaks the Host into two parts, one of which he places on the paten, while with the other he signs the chalice, and after dipping it into the chalice signs the other half of the Host, reciting meanwhile the proper prayers for the consignation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- When the Chaldean empire was absorbed into the Achaemenid, the name Chaldean lost its meaning as the name of an ethnic group, and came to be applied to a class. Think Progress » Defending ‘Tea Party Profiteers,’ Odom Tells Activists ‘We Should Reward Them With Our Pocketbooks’
- Chaldean superstition and Greek newfangledness, that had little to do, added In Praise of Folly
- BAGHDAD In between messages of love and faith, Mushtaq Zanbaqa, priest of the Holy Virgin Chaldean Catholic Church in east Baghdad, has a weekly plea for his Christian flock: Christians, targeted and suffering, flee Iraq
- In truth, 'Chaldea', like the mythical Gog and Magog, was probably a veiled reference to a magic, hidden kingdom that existed spiritually in the minds of ancient Middle Eastern men and women within their dreams at night. RedState
- Instances of the apocopated [Hebrew] (b) are common in the Chaldean or Syro – Chaldaic at the present day; e.g. [Arabic] (Yáheb Alaha) is pronounced Yáu-Alaha; The Land of Midian
- How could he possibly know what Joseph Ryan saw with those Chaldean eyes of his? BAD MEDICINE
- But God here difco - veis the great fecret of the two chaftife* ments he inflicb: a chaftifement of feve - rity upon the Chaldeans 5 a fatherly chaft - ifement on the Jews, who are his child* ren. A Universal History from the Beginning of the World to the Empire of Charlemagne
- Queen and a Chaldean soothsayer, which is one of the most powerful in the opera. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
