babylonise
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Sardanapalus, though an Assyrian, had been quite Babylonised."
- "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)."
- "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."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage