a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.] Of or belonging to Babylon; hence fig. a. Romish, popish, b. Babel-like, disorderly, tumultuous.
1535. Coverdale, Bible, Ded. Much bound … to your grace for delivering us out of our old Babylonical captivity.
1547. Homilies, I. x. I. (1859), 105. There raigneth all … Babylonicall confusion.
1597. J. Payne, Royal Exch., 38. The Babylonicall extermination by Cyrus.
