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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conventionalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... an effort, she banished her disturbing thoughts. She was going to marry Jim. Perhaps she could mold him a little. Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness. Then she began to wonder why she had asked him to tell nobody yet. Girls she knew had found an obvious satisfaction in exhibiting their lovers, but she had felt a need for concealment. This ...

— Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss

... eccentricities and far-fetched conceits of the Marinists, the exiled Englishmen welcomed the change; they espoused the French principles; and when at the Restoration they returned to England with their king, whose taste had been trained in the same school, they began at once to formalize and conventionalize English poetry. The writers of the past, even the greatest writers of the past, were regarded as men of genius, but without art; and English poetry was thenceforth, in Dryden's own ...

— Palamon and Arcite • John Dryden

... effort, she banished her disturbing thoughts. She was going to marry Jim. Perhaps she could mold him a little. Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness. Then she began to wonder why she had asked him to tell nobody yet. Girls she knew had found an obvious satisfaction in exhibiting their lovers, but she had felt a need for concealment. ...

— Partners of the Out-Trail • Harold Bindloss

... wondering grunt, the other complied, unrolling several small sheets of photographer's printing-out paper, to which several extraordinarily complicated and minute designs had been transferred—strongly resembling laborious efforts to conventionalize a ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... 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