babylonize

English

Verb

babylonize (third-person singular simple present babylonizes, present participle babylonizing, simple past and past participle babylonized)

1. Alternative form of Babylonize
   • 1909, Albert Tobias Clay, Amurru, the Home of the Northern Semites, page 95:

     With later streams of immigration coming from the West, as, for instance, in the Nisin dynasty (third millennium B.C.), the name in its original form continued to be brought into the country; but coming in when the early Sumerian forms of the Semitic names, as well as the religion, had been babylonized, they were treated as distinct deities.

   • 1936, Harry Reginald Hall, Cyril John Gadd, The Ancient History of the Near East from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis, page 328:

     But eventually the Syrian Hittites succumbed, and though they retained much of their own culture, including their peculiar hieroglyphic system, yet their art became entirely babylonized or assyrized, as we see it in the later sculptures of the Aramaean palaces of Sinjirli and Sakjegözü.

   • 2010, James Beasley, Scripture in Chinese Chengyu, page 59:

     Disobedience to the God of Heaven, the effect of Nebuchadnezzar's intention to babylonize these young people, would have brought not only the foursome's demise, but the destruction of the entire Babylonian people.

   • 2015, H.R. Hall, The Ancient History of the Near East, page 173:

     Later on, Babylonian influence found on the Sumerian origin of the Elamite culture a fruitful ground for its propagation, and eventually Elamite art, like the rest of Elamite culture, became entirely babylonized (see P- 195).