literatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: literatizes
form: literatizing
form: literatized
form: literatized
form: literatise
Etymology: From literature + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to "literatize" and " articize " life.
ref: 1922, Prosser Hall Frye, Romance & Tragedy, page 74:
text: 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.
ref: 1988, Paul Smith, Discerning the Subject, page 169:
text: I would further suggest that by granting sight pre-eminence over sound and correlating the visual with discursive language, these influential theorists are attempting to literatize embodiment, whose physical manifestations are observed and analyzed through a visualist and scriptocentric theoretical lens that disregards and potentially disavows the sensually experienced non-visual materiality and non-discursive sonic/phonic performative power of vocality.
ref: 2019, Virginie Magnat, The Performative Power of Vocality:
glosses: To create a body of literature about; to make into a subject that is studied through reading about it.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1967, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 26, page 159:
text: Perhaps in our technotronic age the importance of literature as such has receded, but as it has withdrawn film and video and television have been highly literatized.
ref: 1991, Ewa M. Thompson, The Search for Self-Definition in Russian Literature, page 76:
text: But at the same time this style of rendering is artistically literatized in a language of personal observation dealing with the common experiences of one's former we-community from the point of view of the child and adolescent who would like to learn about the mysteries of the we-community which he is born into.
ref: 2012, Guillermo Bartelt, Bärbel Treichel, Don Decker’s Apache Odyssey:
text: Admittedly, we can ask whether the graphic style of Coptic is motivated by a usage that was originally exclusively literary, or by the fact that Coptic started to be employed, in the domain of documents, exclusively for private epistolography (as we are going to see in greater detail), at a time when the trend was to “literatize” the writing of private letters.
ref: 2020, Jean-Luc Fournet, The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity, page 16:
glosses: To make literary; to write using a literary style
examples: text: 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.”
ref: 1867 November, “Busy Brains”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 20, number 121, page 581:
text: I neither rode recklessly, flirted desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized, nor hypnotized.
ref: 1895, Frances Aymar Mathews, “A Confession of Success”, in Godey's Magazine, volume 131, page 384:
text: 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.
ref: 1996, La Solidaridad - Volume 4, page 269:
glosses: To engage in literary pursuits; to read and write literature.