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Babylonic

/ˌbæbɪˈlɒnɪk/

Babylonic adjective: pertaining to Babylon, or made there.

Adjective

Babylonic (comparative more Babylonic, superlative most Babylonic)

  1. Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.
    • Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings
    Synonyms:
    Babylonian
  2. (figuratively) Tumultuous; disorderly.
    • 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...1846, Catherine Grace Frances Gore, Sketches of English Character - Volumes 1-2, page 199
    • 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.1995, James Joseph Bono, The Word of God and the Languages of Man, page 163

Examples of Babylonic in a sentence

  • We'd strain to touch those lang'rous Length of thighs; And hear your short sharp modern Babylonic cries.2016, Djuna Barnes, Katharine Maller, Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes, page 238:
  • 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.2021, William J. Locke, The Kingdom of Theophilus:

Synonyms of Babylonic

Forms of Babylonic

comparativemore Babylonic
superlativemost Babylonic

Origin of Babylonic

From Latin Babylōnicus.

Words formed from Babylonic

Questions about Babylonic

What does Babylonic mean?
Babylonic means pertaining to Babylon, or made there.
How do you use Babylonic in a sentence?
We'd strain to touch those lang'rous Length of thighs; And hear your short sharp modern Babylonic cries.
What part of speech is Babylonic?
Babylonic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce Babylonic?
Babylonic is pronounced /ˌbæbɪˈlɒnɪk/.

Words near Babylonic in the dictionary

  1. Babylon willows
  2. Babylonia
  3. Babylonian
  4. Babylonian Talmud
  5. Babylonians
  6. Babylonic
  7. Babylonical
  8. Babylonically
  9. babylonise
  10. babylonised
  11. babylonises

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