Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Babylon, or made there: as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings.
- Tumultuous; disorderly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.
- adjective obsolete Tumultuous; disorderly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
Babylon , or made there. - adjective obsolete
Tumultuous ;disorderly .
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Examples
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
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The soft music of the distant string band and -- oh, it was all dashed with a touch of Babylonic splendour with due regard for the decorum required by modern civilisation, and Nancy was sufficiently young and unused to delight in every moment of it.
The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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Laura unfolded the story, and when she came to the end, the excitement was hot and Babylonic.
A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
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Babylonic smoke, working up his sketches into certain unspeakable pictures, with which the world will be astonished, or otherwise, at the next Royal Academy Exhibition; while I, for whom another fortnight of pure western air remains, am off to well-known streams, to be in time for the autumn floods, and the shoals of fresh-run salmon trout.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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Gye had kept the men's wardrobe at the top of the house over the great entrance staircase; when the roof fell in it came down bodily, and all that part of the ruins was like an old Babylonic pavement, bright rays tesselating the black ground, sometimes in pieces so large that I could make out the clothes in the "Trovatore."
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841
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Now a Babylonic babble of voices is only a matter of selecting the voices.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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Now a Babylonic babble of voices is only a matter of selecting the voices.
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
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