Babylonish
adjEtymology From Babylon + -ish. Compare Old English Babilōnisċ. Piecewise doublet of Babelish.
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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:
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Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.
3
Obsolete Pertaining to Rome and papal power.
- the […] injurious nickname of Babylonisha. 1656, Thomas Gage, Voyages […] :
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Confused; Babel-like.