Pragmatise
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of pragmatize.; To make real.
"He does not, as was formerly the fashion, pragmatise mythology, i.e. simply drop the supernatural elements, and take the residuum as history; nor, on the other hand, reject it altogether, as utterly useless for historical purposes; but having endeavoured to catch the traditional belief, the impregnating idea which is at work under the ever-changing forms of fable, he uses it with cautious, sagacity as a clue for tracing the course of primeval settlements, and recovering the lost thread of ethnological affinities."
- 2 Alternative form of pragmatize.; To focus on the material or practical.
"A Movement like ours, so apt to pragmatise, developed its policy in a practical way."
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More examples"He does not, as was formerly the fashion, pragmatise mythology, i.e. simply drop the supernatural elements, and take the residuum as history; nor, on the other hand, reject it altogether, as utterly useless for historical purposes; but having endeavoured to catch the traditional belief, the impregnating idea which is at work under the ever-changing forms of fable, he uses it with cautious, sagacity as a clue for tracing the course of primeval settlements, and recovering the lost thread of ethnological affinities."
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