academize

American  

[uh-kad-uh-mahyz] / əˈkæd əˌmaɪz /

especially British, academise

verb (used with object)

academized, academizing

1. to reduce (a subject) to a rigid set of rules, principles, precepts, etc..

   futile attempts to academize the visual arts.

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Etymology

Origin of academize

First recorded in 1865–70; academ(y) + -ize

Example Sentences

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academized

I am waiting now to see "gets my goat" academized by Professor Saintsbury.'

From Time Magazine Archive

America, in its eager embrace of the new, industrialized and academized the idea of avant-garde production so long ago that the notion of an unpopular, provincial Modernism seems remote.

From Time Magazine Archive

It came back across the Atlantic in the '30s and '40s, and then was academized.

From Time Magazine Archive

He felt unfocused, self-indulgent and queasy, surrounded by an already academized modern tradition that he could not grasp.

From Time Magazine Archive

As soon as the pontiffs discovered Impressionism, some twenty years after its patent manifestation, they academized it.

From Art by Bell, Clive