pragmatizern.

Brit.

/ˈpraɡmətʌɪzə/, U.S.

/ˈpræɡməˌtaɪzər/

Forms: 1800s– pragmatiser, 1800s– pragmatizer.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pragmatize v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < pragmatize v. + -er suffix¹.

Now rare.

A person who pragmatizes; spec. (now historical) one who rationalizes a myth, legend, etc. Now also: a person who treats or interprets something pragmatically.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > rationalism > person

rationalist1641

pragmatizer1847

1847 Fraser's Mag. 36 16 Pragmatisers, astronomers, and allegorists have worn his labours threadbare.

1866 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (1871) 1st Ser. i. 3 The pragmatizers take a mythical story; they strip it by an arbitrary process of whatever seems impossible, they explain or allegorize miraculous details [etc.].

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. x. 368 The pragmatizer is a stupid creature, nothing is too beautiful or too sacred to be made dull and vulgar by his touch.

1950 Amer. Anthropologist 52 16 The real mainspring of myth in all ages, Tylor maintained, has been the ‘pragmatizer’, who, through his incapacity to hold abstract ideas, is forced to embody them in material incidents and to clothe every thought in concrete shape.

1979 Rev. Relig. Res. 21 6 The policy maker must jealously guard his status as a first-order pragmatizer of theory by insisting that the scientist remain a first-order theorizer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pragmatizer
释义	pragmatizern. Brit. /ˈpraɡmətʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈpræɡməˌtaɪzər/ Forms: 1800s– pragmatiser, 1800s– pragmatizer. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pragmatize v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < pragmatize v. + -er suffix¹. Now rare. A person who pragmatizes; spec. (now historical) one who rationalizes a myth, legend, etc. Now also: a person who treats or interprets something pragmatically. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > rationalism > person rationalist1641 pragmatizer1847 1847 Fraser's Mag. 36 16 Pragmatisers, astronomers, and allegorists have worn his labours threadbare. 1866 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (1871) 1st Ser. i. 3 The pragmatizers take a mythical story; they strip it by an arbitrary process of whatever seems impossible, they explain or allegorize miraculous details [etc.]. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. x. 368 The pragmatizer is a stupid creature, nothing is too beautiful or too sacred to be made dull and vulgar by his touch. 1950 Amer. Anthropologist 52 16 The real mainspring of myth in all ages, Tylor maintained, has been the ‘pragmatizer’, who, through his incapacity to hold abstract ideas, is forced to embody them in material incidents and to clothe every thought in concrete shape. 1979 Rev. Relig. Res. 21 6 The policy maker must jealously guard his status as a first-order pragmatizer of theory by insisting that the scientist remain a first-order theorizer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847
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