Popularize \Pop"u*lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Popularized};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Popularizing}.] [Cf. F. populariser.]
To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common
people; to make generally known; as, to popularize
philosophy. "The popularizing of religious teaching."
--Milman.
[1913 Webster]