verb (old).—To trick, cheat, or ‘take in.’ [Thought to be from ‘Chaldee,’ in allusion to astrology. Cf., to JEW.] For synonyms, see STICK.

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  1654.  BUTLER, Hudibras, II., iii., 1010.

        He stole your cloak, and pick’d your pocket,
Chous’d and CALDES’D ye like a blockhead.

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  1680.  BUTLER, Poetical Remains (1759), I., 24.

        Asham’d, that men so grave and wise
Should be CHALDES’D by gnats and flies.  [M.]

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  1697.  DENNIS, A Plot and No Plot, I. I CALDES’D a Judge while he was taking my Depositions.  [M.]

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