单词 | babylonically |
释义 | Babylonicallyadv. rare. In a manner characteristic of Babylon or its inhabitants. Also (derogatory): in the manner of a Roman Catholic (see Babylon n.2 1). ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 32 He is attended vpon most Babilonically. 1676 R. Williams George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrowes 133 Fox should not say the Word and the Spirit are all one (as commonly G. Fox doth) and that the Father and the Son are one without Distinction (as boldly and Babilonically he doth). 1849 Bentley's Misc. 26 646 The hard names that John and Mrs. Bull pronounce so Babylonically. 1950 K. Burke Rhetoric of Motives (1969) ii. 62 They can all be derived from ‘persuasion’, as the ‘Edenic’ term from which they have all ‘Babylonically’ split. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1599 |
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