Babylonize

English

Alternative forms

• babylonize, Babylonise, babylonise

Etymology

Babylon +‎ -ize

Verb

Babylonize (third-person singular simple present Babylonizes, present participle Babylonizing, simple past and past participle Babylonized)

1. To make or become more Babylonian.
   • 1868 September, “John and Bridget - A talk about Names”, in Putnam's Magazine, volume 2, number 9, page 271:

     Nebuchadnezzar had that name given to Azariah, for the same reason that he changed the name of Daniel to that of Belteshazzar. It was done in order to nationalize—or rather to Babylonize—all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.

   • 1994, The Christian Life for the Kindred in Spirit, page 117:

     The king intended to "Babylonize" these young Israelites so they would forget their past and acquiesce to their new cultural environment.

   • 1965, David Jones -, The Arab world, page 22:

     The conquered peoples were gradually "Hellenized",* whereas earlier Middle Eastern empires had not attempted to "Assyrianize" or "Babylonize" their subject peoples but had merely collected taxes.

   • 1968, Analecta orientalia:

     The Arameans showed much less inclination to Babylonize; and, even though some of them settled in the old cities, they tended to retain Aramean names and to remain aloof from the government of Babylonia.