a. and sb. Also 4 Caldey, 6 Chalde, 7 Caldie, Chaldy.
A. adj. = CHALDEAN, CHALDAIC. B. sb. a. A native of Chaldea. b. The language of the Chaldeans: also the biblical ‘Syriac’ or Aramaic.
1382. Wyclif, Dan. ii. 10. Eche dyuynour, and witche, and Caldey.
1588. R. Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 304. Martin Simion … is a Chalde borne.
1602. T. Fitzherbert, Defence, 49. As wel in the Greeke text, as in the Siriac & Caldie.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 5. A Language … which is sometimes called Syriac, and sometimes Chaldee, and sometimes Hebrew.
So † Chaldeish, Chaldæism (= CHALDAISM).
c. 1511. 1st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.), Introd. 30/2. Some of them speketh Caldesche some Arabier.
1535. Coverdale, Dan. i. 4. To lerne for to speake Caldeish.
1684. N. S., Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible, viii. 48. There are so many Chaldeisms in the Hebrew Text.
