\Pleb`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. plebs the common
people + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {-fy}.]
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.