pragmatizing

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