[f. as prec. + -ISM.]
† 1. fig. Popery. Obs.
1610. Bp. Hall, Apol. Brownists, 129. They baptize the seed of them who are no members of any visible church. Mere Babylonisme.
1645. [so in Pagitt, Heresiogr. (1661), 73.]
2. A Babylonian word or phrase.
1883. Delitzsch, in Athenæum, 25 Aug., 239/2. A good many such ‘Babylonisms’ … are now to be discovered in Aramaic.
