Babylonic

Definition

Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.

Etymology

From Latin Babylōnicus.

Example Sentences

• "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."