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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

plebs

the common people +

-ficare

(in comp.) to make. See

A rendering plebeian; the act of vulgarizing.

[R.]

You begin with the attempt to popularize learning . . . but you will end in the

plebification

of knowledge.

Coleridge.

plebification ‎(usually uncountable, plural plebifications)

Making plebeian; vulgarizing.
You begin with the attempt to popularize learning […] but you will end in the plebification of knowledge. — Coleridge.