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conventionalize, v.|kənˈvɛnʃənəlaɪz|
Also -ise.
[f. conventional + -ize.]
trans. To make conventional; to bring under conventional rules; in Art, to treat conventionally, represent in a conventional manner.
1854Ruskin Lect. Archit. 154 You will often hear..that architectural ornament ought to be conventionalized. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iii. 43 Natural gestures were very commonly conventionalized and abridged to save time.
Hence conˈventionalized ppl. a., conˈventionalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1862Macm. Mag. Apr. 528 We miss a little of the needful conventionalizing suitable to architecture. 1868G. M. Hopkins Jrnl. 21 Aug. (1959) 186 A portrait of a gentleman with some beautiful conventionalised leafage behind. 1879Academy 39 Decoration with slightly conventionalized irises and lilies. 1889Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. xxi. 447 They are faithful reproductions of the changed life—telegraph poles down the streets, conventionalised tram-lines, [etc.]. 1960Snook Eng. Hist. Embroidery 72 A second long cover (V. & A.) has a scrolling design of conventionalised flowers, fruit and leaves. |