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Babylonise
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English
Etymology
From en Babylon -ise.
Verb
en non-Oxford British spelling Babylonize.
en 1870 The Broadway 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.
en 2000 A Short History of the World H. G. Wells 73 Sardanapalus, though an Assyrian, had been quite Babylonised.
en 2019 Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian; Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini 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).