chaldean

Of or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general.

Honour me! Chaldean priests / Bow to me in adoration

A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.

The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community.

The Chaldeans worshipped the seven planets. These seven planets were the "Seven Great Gods" of the ancients, and constituted a polytheism, the component members of which varied in importance, with the moon occupying the premier position.

A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

A diviner or astrologer.

Older Babylonian astrology, which flourished in Kassite and Assyrian times (1400-700 B.C.) had a quite different character: it aimed at short-range predictions of general public events, such as wars and harvests, from striking phenomena such as eclipses, clouds, annual rising and setting of planets, whereas the Hellenistic "Chaldaeans" predicted individual fates from positions of planets and zodiacal signs at the date of birth or conception. [...] So the individual character of horoscopic astrology should not be stressed too much. The essential new feature is, that positions of planets and zodiacal signs are used for long-range predictions. Now these positions are by no means striking events: planets may be invisible, and signs are never visible. The data needed for a horoscope had, in most cases, to be calculated from tables. We ignore how, when and why this transformation took place. But it could only take place in Babylonia, where tables were available for calculating positions of planets at remote dates. Not without reason astrologers were called "Chaldaeans" throughout the Roman Empire!

The West Semitic language of the ancient Chaldeans.

Synonym of Biblical Aramaic (now considered a misnomer).

Synonym of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.