Babylonically

English Etymology From en Babylonic ally or en Babylonical ly.† Babylo·nically adv I 607 2 f[rom] prec[eding] [Babylonical] + -ly2. 1 Adverb In a Babylonic manner. 32 O he is attended vpon moſt Babilonically, and Xerxes ſo ouercloyd not the Helleſpont with his foyſtes, gallies, and brigandines, as he mantleth the narrow ſeas with his retinue, being not much behinde in the checkroule of his Ianiſſaries and contributories, with Eagle-ſoaring Bullingbrooke, that at his remouing of houſhold into baniſhment (as father Froyſard threapes vs downe) was accompanied with 40000, men wemen and children weeping, from London to the landes end at Douer. en N. N. A Treatise Concerning Estates Tayle, and Discents of Inheritance Published by I. Sherman,of Lincolnes Inne: Gen. London: Printed for Iohn Grove,and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancery Lane, over against the Subpaena Office 1641 [42] And hereſies in Law (which are ſaid to be ſometimes de immunitate) better then the ancient poſitive Lawes of this Realme, except you think that nature have more bound you to advance others then your owne Children, except you thinke that other men have begotten better Children then your ſelfe, except you more reſpect a like name of another then the true diſcent of your owne bloud, except you mind to ſow hatred among your conſanguinity, except you intend to offer open wrong to your heire, for paria ſunt malefacere, et malefacta non obviare, and except you would vainely and Babylonically erect a Tower againſt the omnipotent power of God himſelfe, which building cannot long ſtand, nor proſper. en R[oger] W[illiams] George Fox Digg’d out of His Burrovves, or an Offer of Disputation on Fourteen Proposalls Made This Last Summer 1672 (so Call’d) unto G. Fox Then Present on Rode-Island in New-England, by R. W.As Also How (G. Fox Slily Departing) the Disputation Went on Being Managed Three Dayes at Newport on Rode-Island, and One Day at Providence, Between Iohn Stubs, Iohn Burnet, and William Edmondson on the one part, and R. W. on the other. In Which Many Quotations out of G. Fox & Ed. Burrowes Book in Folio Are Alleadged. With an Appendix of Some Scores of G. F. His Simple Lame Answers to His Opposites in That Book, Quoted and Replyed to by R. W. of Providence in N. E. Boston Printed by Iohn Foster 1676 133 And that Fox ſhould not ſay the Word and the Spirit are all one (as commonly G. Fox doth) and that the Father and the Son are one without Diſtinction (as boldly and Babilonically he doth) en Tartini’s Familiar [pseudonym] Musical Notes for May Bentley’s Miscellany XXV London Richard Bentley,New Burlington Street 1849 646 And this it is, in part, which recommends them to our public, but, in part also, it is the overstrained reputation, and the hard names which John and Mrs. Bull pronounce so Babylonically. en Robert Herring The President’s Hat London Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. 1926 158 At the next ridge they sat down Babylonically and wept. en w:Marie Hochmuth Nichols Kenneth Burke and the “New Rhetoric” Lionel Crocker; Paul A. Carmack Readings in Rhetoric Springfield, Ill. Charles C Thomas 1965 560–561 https://archive.org/details/readingsinrhetor00croc/page/560/mode/1up 64-24041 Whereas he finds that these meanings are “often not consistent with one another, or even flatly at odds,” he believes that they can all be derived from “persuasion” as the “Edenic” term, from which they have all “Babylonically” split, while persuasion, in turn “involves communication by the signs of consubstantiality, the appeal of identification.” en w:Miguel Hernández Michael Smith Unceasing Lightning The Dedalus Press 1986 48 0 948268 17 4 Heart each day more frequently growing cities of love to idolize, cities that fall from all ages babylonically and fatally. en David R. Beasley Aspects of Love Davus Publishing 2000 66 0-915317-11-7 Sacre Coeur pillared Babylonically in the distance. en Anne-Marie Schlösser A Psychoanalytic Exploration on Sameness and Otherness: Beyond Babel? w:Routledge 2020 978-0-367-37407-5 New metaphors are created, a new language, which seems to us Babylonically confused and incomprehensible. en w:Ben Schott Jeeves and the Leap of Faith w:Penguin Books 2020 978-1-473-57159-4 How Jeeves accomplishes his effortless omniscience is one of those eternal, unfathomable mysteries, like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or Percy Gorringe’s side-whiskers – which, now I picture them, also hang pretty Babylonically. References