Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.