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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of academize.

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Examples

  • The point of using the classics in this kind of playful reverence is that I always felt the classics had become stuffy through being academized-is that what the word is?

    Jasper Fforde biography 2010

  • Nelson Livingston opined on his blog Meu Mundo [pt] in July 2008, after this episode of Azagaia debate in the blogosphere in which “people called each other names” and “academized insults were traded”:

    Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009

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

    Art Clive Bell 1922

  • "The American art world has become thoroughly academized," he says.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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