The Collaborative International Dictionary
Babylonish \Bab"y*lo`nish\, a.
Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. ``A Babylonish garment.''
--Josh. vii. 21.Pertaining to the Babylon of
--Revelation xiv. 8.-
Pertaining to Rome and papal power. [Obs.]
The . . . injurious nickname of Babylonish.
--Gage. Confused; Babel-like. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. 2 Pertaining to the Babylon of ''Revelation xiv. 8.'' 3 (context obsolete English) Pertaining to Rome and papal power. 4 confused; Babel-like.
Usage examples of "babylonish".
Marget, I wouldna wonder but what ye micht hae been tempted by the Babylonish garment!
They lost it in the Babylonish captivity, and never afterwards recovered it.
It must have seemed so to the Babylonish conquerors who swept over Palestine in turn, on their way to greater conquests in Egypt.
Wyndham remarked that the Jews have a tradition which in itself is very probable, that the venerable man pointed out to Cyrus, after his conquest of Babylon, the verses in Isaiah, wherein he is spoken of by name, as conquering by the power of the Lord, and giving orders to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple: and also that other passage, in which the destruction of the Babylonish empire by the Medes is foretold, both prophecies being recorded more than a hundred years before the birth of the mighty king by whom they were accomplished.
During the Babylonish empire, Greece, and its islands, were scarcely known to people of that country.
By others he is said to have been the son of Antiope, the daughter of Belus: consequently he must originally have been of Babylonish extraction.
Europians of Babylonish extraction, who were ab origine from Ur in Chaldea?
Belus is a Babylonish title of Ham, as well as of his immediate descendants, who are here alluded to.
Philistines - Babylonish abominations - Mene, mene, tekel, upharisn - -.
Satan here held his Babylonish court, and in the blood of stainless childhood the leprous limbs of phosphorescent Lilith were laved.
He never returns, but beside a fantastic stone in the wild country are found his watch, money, and ring, done up with catgut in a parchment bearing the same terrible characters as those on the black Babylonish seal and the rock in the Welsh mountains.
Thirdly, we have unquestionable proofs that, during the period from the Babylonish captivity to the advent of Christ, the Jews borrowed and adapted a great deal from the Persian theology, but no proof that the Persians took any thing from the Jewish theology.
This plainly denotes their present suffering in the Babylonish captivity, and their despair of being delivered from it.
It appears from his prayer, that he supposed the Babylonish captivity of seventy years, would terminate the chastisement of his nation.
It was a Persic and Babylonish Deity, as well as an Armenian, which was honoured with Puratheia, where the rites of fire were particularly kept up.