literatise

literatise is the alternative form of literatize.

Meaning of literatize

literatize (third-person singular simple present literatizes, present participle literatizing, simple past and past participle literatized)

To make literate; to introduce or increase the incidence of reading and writing.
- 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, ...1990, Late Imperial China - Volume 11, Issues 1-2, page 120

literatize (third-person singular simple present literatizes, present participle literatizing, simple past and past participle literatized)

To create a body of literature about; to make into a subject that is studied through reading about it.
- As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to "literatize" and " articize " life.1922, Prosser Hall Frye, Romance & Tragedy, page 74
To make literary; to write using a literary style
- Self-conscious, saddled with primerous blurbs and introductory matter, it is so sophisticated, so scrupulous in crediting even the supplier who manufactures the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Award tokens (sic), that it resembles some kind of grotesque attempt to literatize a corporate...1967, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 26, page 159
To engage in literary pursuits; to read and write literature.
- He says of himself in a letter to a friend: "I literatize away the morning, ride at three, go to bathe at five, dine at six, and get through the evening as I best may, sometimes by correcting a proof.”1867 November, “Busy Brains”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 20, number 121, page 581

third-person singular present	literatises
present participle	literatising
past participle	literatised
past	literatised

What is literatise the alternative form of?: Literatise is the alternative form of literatize.

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