A-çĕl'da-mā, n.

n. [Chald. khakel, Heb. khēlek, field, and Chald. & Heb. dam, blood.] A field said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood;—sometimes used in a figurative sense.

The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.