Literatize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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, ..."
- 2 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."
- 3 To make literary; to write using a literary style
"Self-conscious, saddled with primerous blurbs and introductory matter, it is so sophisticated, so scrupulous in crediting even the supplier who manufactures the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award tokens (sic), that it resembles some kind of grotesque attempt to literatize a corporate statement."
- 4 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.”"
Example
More examples"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, ..."
Etymology
From literate + -ize.
From literature + -ize.
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