单词 | vulgarize |
释义 | vulgarizev. 1. intransitive. To act in a vulgar manner; to become vulgar. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > behave badly [verb (intransitive)] > behave in ill-mannered or unrefined way to play the bear1579 lob1596 clown1600 vulgarize1605 swab1638 hoyden1709 lout1807 the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > deprive of refinement [verb (intransitive)] > be or become vulgar to come to town1600 vulgarize1605 1605 S. Daniel Epist. to Lady Anne Clifford vi Honour..cannot stray and breake abroade Into the priuate wayes of carelesnesse; Nor euer may descend to vulgarize, Or be below the sphere of her abode. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. (1852) 96 A man having too much regard for his complexion to infringe upon the wine-cellar, and too much interest in his slimness to vulgarise on ale. 2. transitive. To make common or popular; to reduce to the level of something usual or ordinary. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make commonplace hackney1598 vulgarize1709 commonplace1847 pedestrianize1945 banalize1949 1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. Introd. 6 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland To Vulgarize and to Allegorize the Scripture, are equally of evil Consequence to Religion. 1786 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 273 To find proper foundations for science is neither to narrow or to vulgarise it. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 145 The great bards..Men who have vulgarized sublimity, And bought up truth for the nations. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 154 The invention of printing, without yet vulgarizing letters, had made the thought and history of the entire past contemporaneous. 1872 R. Browning Fifine lxxv Change yourself, dissimulate the thought And vulgarize the word. 3. a. To make vulgar or commonplace; to debase, degrade. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > deprive of refinement [verb (transitive)] > vulgarize hackney1598 vulgarize1756 plebeianize1841 plebify1867 plebificate1869 kitsch1951 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)] > by familiarity profane1643 vulgarize1756 1756 F. Brooke Old Maid No. 32. 188 Its being the religion of the whole nation has made it too common, and if I may be allow'd the Expression, vulgariz'd it. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 74 It would vilify, and, I may say, vulgarise the Almighty, to imagine Him..engaged among the trifling scenes that occupy our notice. a1821 V. Knox Winter Evenings xxxviii, in Wks. (1824) II. 478 Learning sullied with pedantry, exhortation vulgarized by low wit. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. i. 7 They vulgarise and degrade whatever is interesting or sacred to the mind. a1853 F. W. Robertson Wordsworth in Lect. (1858) 244 It seemed as if all that noise was vulgarizing the poet. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe i. 63 Some..peak, not yet vulgarised by associations with guides and picnics. b. absol. To cause or produce vulgarity. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > deprive of refinement [verb (intransitive)] > be or become vulgar > cause or produce vulgarity vulgarize1849 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 122 Family jarring vulgarizes—family union elevates. Derivatives ˈvulgarized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace > making > made vulgarized1847 1847 T. De Quincey Let. 19 Sept. in ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings (1877) I. xv. 349 The absolute realities of vulgarised life as it exists in plebeian ranks amongst our countrymen. 1884 Harper's Mag. Mar. 568/2 The vulgarized phrase, a gentleman. ˈvulgarizer n. one who vulgarizes or makes popular. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > person who publisherc1453 bruiter1535 dissipater1537 spreader1542 utterer1549 setter-outc1553 disperser1580 seed carrier1602 divulger1606 propagator1610 promulgera1635 dispreader1636 divulgater1637 promulgater1637 diffuser1645 promulgator1648 disseminator1667 circulator1792 vulgarizer1899 forthteller1920 vulgarisateur1933 1899 Athenæum 28 Jan. 105/3 He [Albert Smith] was the vulgarizer of Switzerland. ˈvulgarizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace > making vulgarizing1831 the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity > rendering vulgar plebification1818 vulgarization1819 vulgarizing1946 1831 Mrs. Hemans in Chorley Mem. (1836) II. 236 Braham's singing was not equal to the instrumental part, but he did not disfigure it by his customary and vulgarizing graces. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xii. 280 The eternal mountains..never recall..the vulgarising association of old days. 1946 J. S. Huxley Unesco ii. 60 They [sc. press and radio] have already rendered many disservices—in the vulgarising of taste, in the debasement of intellectual standards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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