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  • noun Plural form of Chalcedonian.

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Examples

  • Notice I did not say 'human person'; I don't want any distracting corrections from you Chalcedonians out there.

    Why I love Jesus Mike L 2007

  • Thracians; whereupon Alcibiades put himself at the head of a small body of heavy infantry with the cavalry, and giving orders to the fleet to follow along the coast, marched against the Bithynians and demanded back the property of the Chalcedonians, threatening them with war in case of refusal.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Notice I did not say 'human person'; I don't want any distracting corrections from you Chalcedonians out there.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Mike L 2007

  • It was further stipulated by mutual consent and under oaths provided, that the Chalcedonians should continue the payment of their customary tribute to Athens, being also bound to discharge all outstanding debts.

    Hellenica 2007

  • He prepared next to attack the Chalcedonians, who had revolted from the Athenians, and had received a Lacedaemonian governor and garrison.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • During this action, the Athenian captains who besieged Chalcedon concluded a treaty with Pharnabazus upon these articles: that he should give them a sum of money; that the Chalcedonians should return to the subjection of Athens; and that the Athenians should make no inroad into the province whereof Pharnabazus was governor; and Pharnabazus was also to provide safe conducts for the Athenian ambassadors to the king of Persia.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • One very instructive passage in this same chronicle, referring to the year 727, recounts at length a quarrel between the two branches of the Chalcedonians, the orthodox and the Monothelites, where the former are called Maximists, after

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • "Anti-Chalcedonians" was the term appropriated by everyone in Asia who took sides against the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • He prepared next to attack the Chalcedonians, who had revolted from the Athenians, and had received a Lacedæmonian governor and garrison.

    Alcibiades Plutarch 1909

  • During this action, the Athenian captains who besieged Chalcedon concluded a treaty with Pharnabazus upon these articles: That he should give them a sum of money; that the Chalcedonians should return to the subjection of Athens; and that the Athenians should make no inroad into the province whereof Pharnabazus was governor; and Pharnabazus was also to provide safe conducts for the Athenian ambassadors to the king of Persia.

    Alcibiades Plutarch 1909

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