literatize

verb4

1. •
   To make literary; to write using a literary style

   • Perhaps in our technotronic age the importance of literature as such has receded, but as it has withdrawn film and video and television have been highly literatized. — 1991
2. •
   To make literate; to introduce or increase the incidence of reading and writing.

   • On the whole, the militia leaders were members of wealthy local families, many of them somewhat literatized, who seem to have been trying to hold on to their local power, ... — 1990
3. •
   To create a body of literature about; to make into a subject that is studied through reading about it.

   • As for so many other of our vices we are indebted to them too for the disposition to "literatize" and " articize " life. — 1922
4. •
   To engage in literary pursuits; to read and write literature.

   • I neither rode recklessly, flirted desperately, carried clothes imperially, turned men's heads, broke their hearts, sang divinely, athletized, literatized, antagonized, nor hypnotized. — 1895