See babish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *bʰā-\nProto-Germanic *bō-redup.\nProto-Germanic *babô\nProto-West Germanic *babō\nOld English *baba\nMiddle English babe\nEnglish babe\nProto-Indo-European *-iskos\nProto-Germanic *-iskaz\nProto-West Germanic *-isk\nOld English -isċ\nMiddle English -isch\nEnglish -ish\nEnglish babish\nFrom babe + -ish.",
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"ref": "late 16th century, John Udall, Richardson:",
"text": "The Pharisees had babished the simple people with fained and colde religion, and had tangled theyr consciences with.",
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"ref": "1563, Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, Letter to Sir William Cecil:",
"text": "The truth is, what with passing those hard years of Mary's reign in obscurity, without all conference or such manner of study as now might do me service, and what with my natural viciosity of overmuch shamefastness, I am so babished in myself, that I cannot raise up my heart and stomach to utter in talk with other, which (as I may say) with my pen I can express indifferently, without great difficulty.",
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"ref": "1676, Jonathan Tuckney, Forty Sermons Upon Several Occasions, page 635:",
"text": "And therefore, in that God by this Office hath advanced you so high, as to set you over his Houshold, Be exhorted so far to know your Place, and the dignity and worth of it, as not to be ashamed of it, nor to be babished in the Execution of it.",
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"ref": "2012, “The Annunciation”, in David Bevington, editor, Medieval Drama, page 365:",
"text": "Thay excusyd hir thus, sothly, To make hir clene of hir foly, And babished me that was old.",
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"To make or treat as babish."
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"(obsolete) To make or treat as babish."
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"ipa": "/ˈbeɪb.ɪʃ/"
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