Meaning of Babylonic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.
2. Tumultuous; disorderly.

Examples

“Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings”

“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.”

“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.”

“We'd strain⟳ to touch⟳ those lang'rous Length of thighs; And hear⟳ your short sharp modern Babylonic cries.”

“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,"”

“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.”

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