a. [f. as prec.: see -IC.] Of Aram; spec. applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. Often used absol. sc. language.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 239/2. Translations of the Old Testament into the East-Aramaic language.
1882. Farrar, Early Chr., I. 207. Even if the Jews of the Dispersion understood Aramaic, the Gentiles did not.
