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单词 babelish
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Babelishadj.

Brit. /ˈbeɪbl̩ɪʃ/, /ˈbeɪblɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈbeɪb(ə)lɪʃ/, /ˈbæb(ə)lɪʃ/
Forms: 1600s Babellish, 1600s 1800s– Babelish.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Babel , -ish suffix1.
Etymology: < the name of Babel (see Babel n.) + -ish suffix1. On the use in sense 1 compare discussion at Babel n.
1. Of or belonging to Rome or the Roman Catholic Church (see Babel n. 4). Cf. Babylonish adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [adjective]
RomanisheOE
Laterana1400
Romana1500
papistical1527
popish1528
antichristian1532
pontifical1533
Babylonical1535
papish1538
Romish1538
papistic1545
west1549
catholic1554
catholic1554
mass-monging1556
western1562
Latin1564
Babylonian1567
Babylonish1570
Romish Catholic?1570
Romanist1572
Roman Catholic1587
papala1593
pseudo-catholical1601
Babylonic1602
pseudo-Catholic1605
Romist1605
Romified1609
Babelish1610
papizing1612
pontifician1612
pontificial1614
Romulean1615
papized1639
Romanistical1646
Romanical1664
papagan1679
popish-like1689
Anglo-Roman1766
papicolar1811
Romanistic1829
pre-Reformation1855
papalistic1861
papalized1879
1610 H. Broughton Reuelation Holy Apocalyps (new ed.) xvii. 262 Babelish idolatrie of cursed Rome, that crucified Christ, and by the serpents biting pierced his footestepp and handes: and would naile fast all feete and handes, from walking in Gods wayes: and working in his trueth.
2. Resembling or characteristic of the confusion at Babel (see Babel n.); characterized by noisy disorder; (esp. of language) confused, incoherent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective] > and noisy
Babylonical1547
Babelish1614
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 40 Brings the same..to a Babellish confusion.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Babel Hence 'tis we use babelish for confused.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 406 He may know a Babelish confusion of languages.
1898 Daily News 24 Aug. 3/2 A perfectly Babelish commingling of tongues fell upon the ear.
1910 Archit. Rec. May 377/1 The transitional buildings..were really Babelish, almost Bedlamite, in the variety of the theories upon which their designers proceeded.
1940 Yale Law Jrnl. 49 977 The terminology of contract law is sufficiently Babelish without introducing further confusion of tongues in a first-year course.
1998 M. Maffi in W. Sollors Multilingual Amer. iii. xi. 171 His marginal boy is engaged in surviving in the Big Metropolis, in the very midst of a Babelish downtown New York.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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