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Conventionalize v. t. (past & past part. conventionalized; pres. part. conventionalizing)

To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. (Also spelled conventionalise)

(Fine Arts)

(a)

To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.

(b)

To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

Conventionalize v. i. (Fine Arts) To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.

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Etymology of 'Conventionalize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... patrician head, had never lived or moved before in Tasajara or the West, nor perhaps even existed except as a personified "Constancy," "Meditation," or the "Baron's Bride," in mezzotint or copperplate. Even the girl's common pink print dress with its high sleeves and shoulders could not conventionalize these original outlines; and the hand that rested stiffly on the back of her chair, albeit neither over-white nor well kept, looked as if it had never held anything but a lyre, a rose, or a good book. Even the few sprays of wild jessamine which she had placed in the coils of her waving hair, although ...

— A First Family of Tasajara • Bret Harte