Babylonic

English Etymology From en la Babylōnicus.I 607 1 Pronunciation en /ˌbæbɪˈlɒnɪk/ Adjective Pertaining to Babylon, or made there. en Babylonian Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings en figurative Tumultuous; disorderly. en 1846 Sketches of English Character - Volumes 1-2 Catherine Grace Frances Gore 199 Pipes of port, hogsheads of claret, cases of champagne, gallons of spirituous liquors, are unaccountably added up, subtracted, and divided, by the rule of three and the rule of contrary, into Babylonic confusion, such as worse confounds the confusion of the proprietor of all this intolerable quantity of sack. en 1995 The Word of God and the Languages of Man James Joseph Bono 163 From confusion and subsequent descent into Babylonic chaos and alterity, God's spirit — his saving, incarnate Word—prepares to enter man's heart and to transform the utter alienation and otherness of nature and society into blessed unity. en 2016 Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes Djuna Barnes; Katharine Maller 238 We'd strain to touch those lang'rous Length of thighs; And hear your short sharp modern Babylonic cries. en 2016 Machine Art in the Twentieth Century Andreas Broeckmann 91 The neighboring computers also pick up on this disturbance of their collective chant, and as each is associatively connecting the new words to its own knowledge base, we hear the voices enter into a Babylonic confusion—or, as Rokeby calls it, "a party-like chaos of voices," en 2021 The Kingdom of Theophilus William J. Locke If Evelina had no use for Luke Wavering, still less had she for his daughter, Daphne, brought up by him in this atmosphere of Babylonic miasma. Derived terms en Babylonically Translations Babylonian Spanish: es babilónico References en Babylonia