Babylonise
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Babylonize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard
"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."
- 2 Alternative form of Babylonize. alt-of, alternative
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Babylon + -ise.
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