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Babylonish en · ADJ

Etymology

From Babylon + -ish. Compare Old English Babilōnisċ. Piecewise doublet of Babelish.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.
   • I ſawe amõge yͤ ſpoiles a coſtly Babiloniſh garment, and two hũdꝛeth Sycles of ſyluer and a tunge of golde, woꝛth fiftye Sycles in weight, […] 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Josua vij:[21], folio iiij, verso, column 2:
2. Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.
3. (obsolete) Pertaining to Rome and papal power.
   • the […] injurious nickname of Babylonish a. 1656, Thomas Gage, Voyages […] :
4. Confused; Babel-like.

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