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Popularise

verb

Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use. Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize. "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"

Make understandable to the general public. Synonym: popularize.

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"Popularise" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Philharmonic, and Exeter Hall, one rarely heard good music. Monsieur Jullien, that prince of musical mountebanks - the 'Prince of Waterloo,' as John Ella called him, was the first to popularise classical music at his promenade concerts, by tentatively introducing a single movement of a symphony here and there in the programme of his quadrilles and waltzes ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... themselves with commenting, expanding, modifying here and there the doctrines of the master. Little of their works beyond the names has been preserved, and indeed we can hardly regret the loss. These men no doubt did much to popularise the thoughts of their master, and in this way largely influenced the later development of philosophy; but they had nothing substantial to add, and so the stern pruning-hook of time has cut ...

— A Short History of Greek Philosophy • John Marshall

Words linked to "Popularise" : generalise, pitch, distribute, circularise, circulate, vulgarize, gear, popularisation, disseminate, popularize, circularize, pass around, disperse, diffuse, broadcast, spread, propagate