pragmatize

verb2

1. •
   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
2. •
   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