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n. - A wise man skilled in occult learning adj. - Of or relating to ancient region SW Asia on Euphrates River & Persian Gulf or its people or language or culture.

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  • 'I know of a Babylonian,' he said, 'what they call a Chaldaean; I will go and fetch him at once, and he will put the man right.'
  • And I tell you, great and wise father-in-law, that the Chaldaean is a true seer, never wrong.
  • The principal advenæ are the Noachians, a great Chaldaean or
  • The porters of the town are all Kurds, the river-men Chaldaean
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