a. [see -ISH1.]
1. Of, belonging to, or made at Babylon.
1535. Coverdale, Josh. vii. 21. A costly Babilonish [Wyclif, reed] garment.
1738. Wesley, Psalms, cxxxvii. Fast by the Babylonish Tide … We dropt our weary Limbs.
1861. Sat. Rev., 21 Dec., 645. Babylonish bricks and Assyrian bulls.
2. fig. † a. Romish, popish (obs.); b. Babel-like, confused in language.
1590. Barrow, in Confer., i. 10. The Antichristian yoke of theis Babilonish Bishopps.
1654. Gage (title), A clear Vindication of the … Parochial Ministers of England, from the … injurious nickname of Babylonish.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. i. 93. A Babylonish Dialect, Which learned Pedants much affect.
1816. J. Gilchrist, Philos. Etym., 128. This is the kind of Babylonish lexicography of Johnson’s Dictionary, which gives twenty-four meanings, or shadows of meaning, to the word from.
