Chaldeans

Noun

Chaldean (plural Chaldeans)

1. 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.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254
2. A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
3. 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...1953, B. L. van der Waerden, “History of the Zodiac”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, volume 16, page 223

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