Babylonise

English

Etymology

From Babylon +‎ -ise.

Verb

Babylonise (third-person singular simple present Babylonises, present participle Babylonising, simple past and past participle Babylonised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Babylonize.
   • 1870, The Broadway, page 33:

     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.

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

     Sardanapalus, though an Assyrian, had been quite Babylonised.

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

     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).