The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conventionalize \Con*ven"tion*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conventionalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Conventionalizing.]
To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. [Also spelled conventionalise.]
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(Fine Arts)
To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.
To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.
conventionalise \conventionalise\ v. to make conventional.
Syn: conventionalize.
Wiktionary
vb. (alternative spelling of conventionalize English)
WordNet
v. make conventional or adapt to conventions; "conventionalized behavior" [syn: conventionalize]
Usage examples of "conventionalise".
The writing was in a system of hieroglyphics unknown to me, and unlike anything I had ever seen in books, consisting for the most part of conventionalised aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopi, crustaceans, molluscs, whales and the like.
At a loss, Norman pulled out an advertising leaflet for the airline from the pocket beside his seat, and found he was staring at a conventionalised map of West Africa which made the various countries look like slices of pie wedged into the northern coast of the Bight.
It was the oddly conventionalised figure of a crouching winged hound, or sphinx with a semi-canine face, and was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade.