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Sanskritise
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Etymology
From en Sanskrit ise.
Verb
en British spelling en Sanskritize.
en The Department of Education Report on the Administration of Bengal: 1871–72 Calcutta, West Bengal Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press 1872 part I (The General Report) 249 https://books.google.com/books?id=n_M2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA249 191708132 Of late years there has, however, been a strong tendency to Sanskritise the written Bengali, so much so that the Bengali of our school books had begun to differ widely from the language spoken and understood by an intelligent but unlettered man from the streets.
en w:Robert Caldwell w:Hermann Gundert Part IV. The Numerals. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages 2nd London Trübner & Co.,Ludgate Hill. 1875 233 https://books.google.com/books?id=01RlAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA233 1017304205 One feels further inclined to derive the Sanskrit amśa, a portion, from the aforesaid pañchu, añju, as a Sanskritising of a popular word.
en Robert N[eedham] Cust Aryan Family A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies.Accompanied by Two Language-maps. Trübner’s Oriental Series IV London Trübner & Co.,Ludgate Hill. 1878 60 https://books.google.com/books?id=Eh4gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA60 457325025 The New Testament was translated in 1818 into this Dialect in the Nágari Character, and much Sanskritised.
en Skilfulness H[endrik] Kern F[riedrich] Max Müller The Saddharma-Pu[ṇḍ]arîka or The Lotus of the True Law The Sacred Books of the East XXI Oxford, Oxfordshire Clarendon Press 1884 footnote 1 39 https://archive.org/details/saddharmapundar00camb/page/39/mode/1up 504352410 Both imaginary words are no doubt the result of an unhappy attempt to Sanskritise a Prâkrit nippalâva by scribes unacquainted with the Sanskrit palâva (Pâli palâpa).
en w:Suniti Kumar Chatterji The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language Calcutta, West Bengal Calcutta University Press 1926 134 265483802 Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a 'Modern English' with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.
en D. C. Sircar [i.e., Dineshchandra Sircar] Technical Expressions Indian Epigraphy Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publishers 1965 1996 426 https://books.google.com/books?id=hXMB3649biQC&pg=PA426 978-81-208-1166-9 Sometimes Prakrit words were wrongly Sanskritised. Reference may be made in this connection to utkṛṣṭi derived from Prakrit ukkuṭṭhi (Sanskrit utkrośa) meaning 'wailing'. Similar is the case with ḍheṅku-kaḍḍhaka and nīla-ḍumphaka which appear to have been imperfectly Sanskritised.
en A[nthony] K[ennedy] Warder Epic and Drama in the Time of Vastupāla Indian Kāvya Literature: Volume VII: The Wheel of Time: Part II Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publisher 2004 paragraph 6758 539 https://books.google.com/books?id=GiRVhBmpwSEC&pg=PA539 978-81-208-2028-9 The Avacūrī Sanskritises the first verse in this verse as Sudayavacchakathā and it seems to be Svayambḥū's epic on Śūdraka [...].