academicizev.

1846 Interpr. of Composition between University & King's College 9 They pass through the time of pupillage to a connexion with the University in the Degree which, as a qualification, has the form, but not the substance: and, having learned to academicize, without academical sympathies, they are prepared for maintaining the same petty independence.

1972 Jrnl. Asian & Afr. Stud. 7 272 Mr. Hatch does not ‘academicize’ to hide the truth lying behind the colonial process.

2008 S. Fish Save World on your own Time iv. 80 Academic freedom, correctly (and modestly) understood, is not a challenge to the imperative always to academicize.

1894 Fortn. Rev. May 730 To academicise naturalism is to lose both taste and sincerity.

1912 Elem. School Teacher 12 266 Left to the regular teacher, they are academicized and devitalized simply because he cannot carry so many points of view.

1939 Kenyon Rev. 1 429 A plastic artist may, through his work, be associated with a movement as a passive illustration of certain of its aspects and survive; but a conscientious attempt to exemplify a movement's tenets inevitably paralyses—academicises him.

1969 T. Nairn & J. Singh-Sandhu in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 109 They [sc. art colleges] have been academicized in the way described.

1978 Fortune Dec. 50 The modern corporation, wrongly thinking that larger size and rapid change require special managerial methods, now runs the risk of academicizing and ruining itself.

2005 Spectator (Nexis) 8 Oct. 28 The present system unfairly ‘academicises’ what should be manual, technical skills taught in a manual, technical way.

1957 RIBA Jrnl. 64 312/3 The final stage is academicisation, from which we get a new discontent.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 Sept. (Arts & Leisure section) 76/1 The professionalization and academicization of the art world has been lamented for some years.

1894 Fortn. Rev. May 730 Let us see what academicised realism comes to when it has worn a little thin.

1939 Language 15 256 Extreme modernism in the arts never flourishes so well as in or against, a thoroughly academicized milieu.

1968 S. Rosen in Man & World Feb. 80 The logicist ideology leads so quickly to boredom that it is easily absorbed by the ideology of the academicized marketplace.

2000 J. Caughie Television Drama vi. 159 Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates his insensibility.

1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 305 An unfortunate academicizing of the facts.

1972 P. Coveney Geo. Eliot's Felix Holt 20 The question of the correct dating of ‘five-and-thirty years ago’ is no academicizing quibble.

1996 J. A. Throgmorton Planning as Persuasive Storytelling 262 Note the temporal correlation between this academicizing of planning discourse and the eradication of older city neighborhoods though urban renewal.