babylonise

present singular third person babylonises · participle present babylonising · participle past babylonised · past babylonised

1. alternativeAlternative form of Babylonize.

   We may perhaps see the deeper reason in the fact that the kings and the ruling classes of the Kassites had meanwhile (after 1400) become “babylonised;” that is, that they felt, and affected to feel themselves, Babylonians.

   1903, Hans Ferdinand Helmolt, The World's History, page 17

present singular third person Babylonises · participle present Babylonising · participle past Babylonised · past Babylonised

1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of Babylonize.

   Sardanapalus, though an Assyrian, had been quite Babylonised.

   2000, H. G. Wells, A Short History of the World, page 73

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   It was done in order to nationalise — or rather to Babylonise — all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.

   1870, The Broadway, page 33

   It was replaced with one that included architectural elements imported from Babylonian design from outside the region and was felt by many to be an attempt to 'Babylonise' the Citadel (Fig. 9.6) (Nooraddin 2012).

   2019, Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini, Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads