literatize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make literate

   To make literate; to introduce or increase the incidence of reading and writing.

   • On the whole, the militia leaders were members of wealthy local families, many of them somewhat literatized, who seem to have been trying to hold on to their local power, ...
   • Books function as our extemal memory devices, and with them the need to exercise our intemal memories dwindles; something which has been noticed in recently literatized Inuit culture.
2. 2

   To create a body of literature about

   To create a body of literature about; to make into a subject that is studied through reading about it.

   • As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to "literatize" and " articize " life.
   • The attempt to "literatize" other disciplines is often made by those thinkers in them who have been most receptive and yet most threatened by the invasion of what is often called "continental" theory and by Marxism.
3. 3

   To make literary

   To make literary; to write using a literary style

   • Perhaps in our technotronic age the importance of literature as such has receded, but as it has withdrawn film and video and television have been highly literatized.
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   1. 4

      To engage in literary pursuits

      To engage in literary pursuits; to read and write literature.

      • He says of himself in a letter to a friend: "I literatize away the morning, ride at three, go to bathe at five, dine at six, and get through the evening as I best may, sometimes by correcting a proof.”
      • I neither rode recklessly, flirted desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized, nor hypnotized.
      • Well then, if not, we see a maligned Clarin pretending to be a literary man, because the readers will know that this man is allowed to “literatize” without need of pointers.

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