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Definition of Chalcedon

1. Noun. A former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon.

2. Noun. The fourth ecumenical council in 451 which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ.

Definition of Chalcedon

1. Proper noun. an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, almost directly opposite Byzantium ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalcedon

Chagga Chagres virus Chahta Chaidari Chaidario Chaidarion Chaim Chaim Azriel Weizmann Chaim Soutine Chaim Weizmann

Chairboy Chait Chakavian Chalan Beel Chalca Chalcedon (current term) Chalcedonian Chalcedonians Chalcese Chalchese

Chalcidae Chalcididae Chalcis Chalcostigma Chaldaea Chaldaean Chaldaic Chaldaics Chaldaism Chaldaisms

Literary usage of Chalcedon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Of the seventeen suffragans who failed from Alexandria, four were tempted from their allegiance, and the * The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (Concil. ..."

2. History of Christianity: Comprising All that Relates to the Progress of the by Edward Gibbon (1916)
"The remains of his mangled corpse were delivered to the flames, and his ashes to the wind: and the •' See. in the Appendix to the Acts of Chalcedon, ..."

3. The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to the by Archibald Bower (1750)
"... and their imagining them to have been approved by the Council of Chalcedon, ... This Letter was read in the Council of Chalcedon; and fome of the ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He then draws up a very orthodox profession of faith according to the decrees of Ephesus and Chalcedon ; he accepts all the dogmatic letters of St. Leo I, ..."

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