(a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
(n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
(n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 18 years of study, Stephanie Dalley of Oxford University has concluded that the garden was built by the Assyrians in the north of Mesopotamia – in modern Iraq – rather than by their great enemies the Babylonians in the south.
(2) Liver surgery has grown over 2000 years from the mystic hepatoscopy of the Babylonians to the ultimate of orthotopic transplantation by Starzl in 1968.
(3) In the vault for archeological fragments drawers that once held evidence of Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian culture have been pulled out and stripped.
(4) The occurrence of congenital malformations had been documented by the Assyrian and Babylonians about 2,800 B.C.
(5) For White-Spunner, it is also political: it is about telling a long, deep story about Iraq's past that shows the diverse riches of its Assyrian, Babylonian, Sasanian and Arabic heritage.
(6) Twin gods were worshipped by Babylonians and Assyrians (who even introduced them among astronomic constellations), and may be also found in the Persian and Veda religions.
(7) The evidence presented by Dalley, an expert in ancient Middle Eastern languages, emerged from deciphering Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform scripts and reinterpreting later Greek and Roman texts.
(8) It has been trumpeted as "the building with more up top"; a swollen pint glass of a tower that bulges out as it rises to pack in more offices at the lucrative higher levels, with a Babylonian sky-garden up above.
(9) Congenital malformations are mentioned in Assyrian and Babylonian literature, and the opinions of Democritus, Empedocles and Aristotle regarding their origin persisted in modified form until the Middle Ages.
(10) There's Nisaba the Babylonian goddess who looks after the stores of both grain and knowledge in Mesopotamia; the Hindu goddess Saraswati; the Zoroastrian Anahita; the ancient Greek Athena; and the Shinto Omoikane (a fine goddess of holistic thought and multitasking).
(11) Jeremiah 50:25 reads: "The Lord has opened his arsenal and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Sovereign Lord Almighty has work to do in the land of the Babylonians."
(12) You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China.
(13) Rosenberg uses the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian hordes again, in a poem of that title, to illustrate the carnage around him: Sweet laughter charred in the flame That clutched the cloud and earth, While Solomon's towers crashed between The gird of Babylon's mirth.
(14) Since the Babylonian gate was reconstructed in Germany with original bricks in the 1930s, Iraq has repeatedly called for its return .
(15) She believes her research shows that the feat of engineering and artistry was achieved by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, rather than the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.
(16) Its walls were once inscribed with the dictator's name, but now harbour more tasteful antiquities from Iraq's Assyrian, Babylonian and Arabic past .
(17) The sizes of the Babylonian cubit, Arab fitr and shibr, Greek eclipse digit, and Chinese chang support the conclusion that the registered distance of the stars was about 10 to 40 metres in these four cultures over the last two millennia.
Chaldean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
(n.) A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.
(n.) Nestorian.
Example Sentences:
(1) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
(2) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
(3) But the Iraq-based leader of the Chaldean Catholic church, Louis Sako, said none of the worshippers had been hurt, and that he did not believe the church was the target.
(4) On their fringes have risen and fallen 12,000 years of Sumerian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian and Arab civilisations.
(5) Isis has repeatedly attacked minorities in Iraq, evicting many of the country’s Chaldean Christians from their ancestral homelands in the Nineveh plains, and attempting to starve and enslave thousands of the ancient Yazidi minority.
(6) The mix of Christian denominations is ancient and mind-boggling: Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Assyrian.
(7) In 2008, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop was kidnapped and murdered.
(8) The Isis rampage through Iraq’s Nineveh plains forced out Chaldean Christians and other minorities from areas in which they had co-existed for nearly 2,000 years.
(9) The majority of Iraq’s Christians are part of the Chaldean church.
(10) Many of the region’s minorities, particularly Chaldean Christians, were driven from their ancestral homes out of fear of forced conversions.
(11) By chance, I was in Kurdistan making a programme shortly after and met with some Chaldean refugees who had fled in the wake of the archbishop's murder.
(12) The capital of the Kurdish north is already home to a new Chaldean Christian community, which fled Baghdad in the wake of an Isis-led massacre inside a cathedral in October 2010.
(13) A Demand for Action, a rights group that campaigned for the EU resolution, said: “We will continue to take our message to the halls of power around the world and will never stop demanding justice for our innocent victims of this genocide and doing all we can to make a home for Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and other minorities in the Middle East.” Confirmation of the attack on Dur-Sharrukin came as Isis – also known as Isil, or in Arabic Daesh – appeared on the verge of its first major setback in Iraq, with Iraqi forces led by Shia militias and backed by Sunni tribal fighters and Iraq’s army appeared poised to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown .
(14) The Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, Joseph Thomas, described the situation in northern Iraq as "catastrophic, a crisis beyond imagination".
(15) It will help foster understanding and peace.” The mixed Christian community in Turkey is very small, estimated at about 80,000 in a country of 75 million, and only the few Roman Catholics and Chaldeans regard the pope as their spiritual leader.
(16) Waves of attacks on Christians since the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam have eroded its once sizeable Christian population, mainly from the Assyrian and Chaldean denominations.
(17) If it’s a five-year-old orphan or a child, or if it’s a 90-year-old woman who’s coming to this country, if this is an established leader of the Chaldean religion, someone that we know about that you can vet, common sense says, OK, you can vet them,” Rubio told the Guardian in an interview last week.