Definition of Chaldee

1. Adjective. Of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture.

Exact synonyms: Chaldaean, Chaldean
Derivative terms: Chaldaean, Chaldea, Chaldea, Chaldea, Chaldea, Chaldean
Partainyms: Chaldea, Chaldea, Chaldea

2. Noun. A wise man skilled in occult learning.
Exact synonyms: Chaldaean, Chaldean
Generic synonyms: Occultist

3. Noun. An inhabitant of ancient Chaldea.
Exact synonyms: Chaldaean, Chaldean
Generic synonyms: Semite
Derivative terms: Chaldaean, Chaldean

Definition of Chaldee

1. a. Of or pertaining to Chaldea.

Definition of Chaldee

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Chaldea or Chaldeans and Chaldean culture. ¹

2. Noun. a wise individual involved in the occult. ¹

3. Noun. an ancient Chaldean. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaldee

Chalchese
Chalcidae
Chalcididae
Chalcis
Chalcostigma
Chaldaea
Chaldaean
Chaldaic
Chaldaics
Chaldaism
Chaldaisms
Chaldea
Chaldean
Chaldean Catholic Church
Chaldeans
Chaldee (current term)
Chaldees
Chaldæa
Chaldæan
Chaldæans
Challis
Chalon
Chalons
Chalons-sur-Marne
Chalybean
Chamaea
Chamaea fasciata
Chamaecrista
Chamaecrista fasciculata
Chamaecyparis

Literary usage of Chaldee

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

1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"Hebrew text in the Chaldee language, were constantly taught, earth, ... Now this which the Chaldee Paraphrase called «то'Э the Hellenists named Ai- yov as ..."

2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1858)
"A second edition of Dr. Riggs's " Manual of the Chaldee Language* has been published, and we take this occasion to say to students of Hebrew, that they are ..."

3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1841)
"The Chaldee ; 2. — I!. The Arabic, -with its derivative, the Ethi- 'Jte and importance of the cognate language» to riim. te or Kindred Languages are those ..."

4. The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"But some think that the Chaldee, which is contained in those two books,* is too ... But to return again to our history. tation, hence the Chaldee Memra, ..."

5. Dissertations on the prophecies, which have remarkably been fulfilled, and by Thomas Newton (1766)
"Jonathan Ben Uzziel, who made the Chaldee Targum or ... the greater part of this book being originally written in Chaldee, ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1769)
"In the preface it is faid to be a copy in Chaldee upon parchment : in a ... Where it is pretended to be Chaldee upon parchment, it is faid, ..."

7. A Commentary on the Book of Daniel by Moses Stuart (1850)
"Language and Idiom of the Book, The language is nearly half Chaldee, ... The use of n- final, instead of the later Chaldee x- every where abounds. ..."

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