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Babylonic

//ˌbæbɪˈlɒnɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to Babylon, or made there.

    "Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings"

  2. 2
    Tumultuous; disorderly.

    "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."

Etymology

From Latin Babylōnicus.

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