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Babylonise en · VERB

Etymology

From Babylon + -ise.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, nonstandard) Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Babylonize.
   alt of Babylonize
   • 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:
   • Sardanapalus, though an Assyrian, had been quite Babylonised. 2000, H. G. Wells, A Short History of the World, page 73:
   • 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:

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