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单词 literatize
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literatizev.

Brit. /ˈlɪt(ə)rətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈlɪdər(ə)ˌtaɪz/, /ˈlɪtrəˌtaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– literatize, 1900s– literatise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: literate adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < literate adj. + -ize suffix.
1. transitive. To pass away (time) in literary occupations. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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1836 Ld. Lytton in R. R. Madden Life Countess Blessington (1855) II. 41 I literatize away the morning.
2. transitive. To invest with literary character; to make into literature.
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1910 Evening Post (N.Y.) 15 Jan. 6 That desire to ‘literatise’ life to which a person of reading and cultivated mental habit is prone.
1922 P. H. Frye Romance & Trag. iv. 74 As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to ‘literatize’ and ‘articize’ life.
1999 Art Jrnl. 58 75 Mea Culpa doesn't literatize the topographies of the unconscious, but instead performatively demonstrates the operational dynamics of the unconscious in the process of making a work that addresses trauma.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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