Babylonish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Babylon + -ish. Compare Old English babilōnisċ.
Adjective
[edit]Babylonish (comparative more Babylonish, superlative most Babylonish)
- Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.
- 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:
- 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, […]
- Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8.
- (obsolete) Pertaining to Rome and papal power.
- a. 1656, Thomas Gage, Voyages […] :
- the […] injurious nickname of Babylonish
- Confused; Babel-like.