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pragmatize, v.|ˈprægmətaɪz|
[f. Gr. πρᾶγµα, πραγµατ- a deed, act + -ize. So obs. F. pragmatiser (1660 Oudin).]
1. trans. To represent (what is imaginary or subjective) as real or actual; to materialize or rationalize (a myth).
1834Keightley Tales & Pop. Fict. v. 203 Pragmatising, or endeavouring to extract historic truth out of mythic legends. 1869Seeley Lect. & Ess. v. 136 The distinctness with which theological doctrines are pragmatised.
2. intr. To behave in accordance with, or give expression to, a doctrine of pragmatism.
1907H. James Let. 17 Oct. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 428, I was lost in the wonder of the extent to which all my life I have (like M. Jourdain) unconsciously pragmatised. 1966New Statesman 15 Apr. 537/1 The moment the election was won he [sc. Mr. Wilson] was ‘pragmatising’ around the place like a man possessed.
Hence ˈpragmatized, ˈpragmatizing ppl. adjs.; pragmatiˈzation, the action or process of giving practical effect to theory.
1866Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. i. (1871) 3 The old pragmatizing or Euhemeristic school of mythological interpretation. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. x. 368 One of the miraculous passages..is traced..to such a pragmatized metaphor. 1950T. Wiesengrund-Adorno et al. Authoritarian Personality xvii. 726 It is precisely this pragmatization of politics which ultimately defines fascist philosophy. |