Literatize

Quick meaning: Literatize is a verb meaning To make literate; to introduce or increase the incidence of reading and writing.

Meaning

To make literate; to introduce or increase the incidence of reading and writing.

More Meanings

1. To create a body of literature about; to make into a subject that is studied through reading about it.
2. To make literary; to write using a literary style
3. To engage in literary pursuits; to read and write literature.

Example Sentences

As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to "literatize" and " articize " life.

Perhaps in our technotronic age the importance of literature as such has receded, but as it has withdrawn film and video and television have been highly literatized.

On the whole, the militia leaders were members of wealthy local families, many of them somewhat literatized, who seem to have been trying to hold on to their local power, .

Books function as our extemal memory devices, and with them the need to exercise our intemal memories dwindles; something which has been noticed in recently literatized Inuit culture.

Word Forms

• literatizes
• literatizing
• literatized
• literatise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include literatise, romanize, irradiate, indite, laetificate, latinize.

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