Chaldean

How To Use Chaldean In A Sentence

• Chaldean superstition and Greek newfangledness, that had little to do, added In Praise of Folly
• (Aegis, 21 October 1895) is a haunted house tale concerning Chaldean necromancy, psychic forces, and astral forms being discussed with exhausting erudition by Damon Van Buster, somebody called "Pythias," and George and Fred (no last names), the latter a medical student "deep in Gray's Anatomy. The woe of an aspiring genius.
• Hebrew who had not lived in Chaldea would know Chaldee so well as to use it with the same idiomatic ease as his native tongue; the very impurities in Daniel's use of both are just such as were natural to one in his circumstances, but unnatural to one in a later age, or to one not half Hebrew, half Chaldean in residence as Daniel was. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
• After quoting Diodorus to the effect that the Babylonian priests observed the position of certain stars in order to cast horoscopes, Thompson tells us that from a very early day the very name Chaldean became synonymous with magician. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
• brightest eyes that ever have shone" glitter yet more gloriously, till in their nearer and dearer splendor a Chaldean would forget the stars; and the "sweetest lips that ever were kissed" sip the creaming Verzenay, or savor the delicate "olio," with a keener honesty of zest. Border and Bastille
• Minorities such as Coptic Christians in Egypt or the Chaldeans and Yazidi in Iraq are being punished or driven out. Tolerance at Ground Zero
• Solar pantheism, which grew up among the Syrians of the Hellenistic period as a result of the influence of Chaldean astrolatry, imposed itself upon the whole Roman world under the empire. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
• 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
• The old Egyptians and Chaldeans had many such words composed at will for theurgic operations. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night