pragmatising

Verb

pragmatise (third-person singular simple present pragmatises, present participle pragmatising, simple past and past participle pragmatised)

1. To make real.
   • He does not, as was formerly the fashion, pragmatise mythology, i.e. simply drop the supernatural elements, and take the residuum as history; nor, on the other hand, reject it altogether, as utterly useless for historical purposes; but having endeavoured to catch the traditional belief, the...1856, Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot, The National Review - Volume 2, page 163
2. To focus on the material or practical.
   • A Movement like ours, so apt to pragmatise, developed its policy in a practical way.1950, Trades Union Congress, Report of Proceedings at the Annual Trades Union Congress