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pragmatized

pragmatized is the simple past and past participle of pragmatize.

Meaning of pragmatize

Verb

pragmatize (third-person singular simple present pragmatizes, present participle pragmatizing, simple past and past participle pragmatized)

  1. (intransitive) To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.
    • One of the miraculous passages in the life of Mohammed himself is traced plausibly by Sprenger to such a pragmatized metaphor.1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture
  2. (intransitive) To behave in a pragmatic manner; to focus on the material or practical rather than abstractions.
    • They are generically different ; they preach where they ought to worship, they pragmatize where they ought to pray, they discourse where they ought to send up the “Glory.”1856, The Reformed Church Review - Volume 8, page 322

Questions about pragmatized

What is pragmatized the simple past and past participle of?
Pragmatized is the simple past and past participle of pragmatize.

Words near pragmatized in the dictionary

  1. pragmatisms
  2. pragmatist
  3. pragmatistic
  4. pragmatists
  5. pragmatize
  6. pragmatized
  7. pragmatizer
  8. pragmatizers
  9. pragmatizes
  10. pragmatizing
  11. pragmatographia

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