The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conventionalize \Con*ven"tion*al*ize\, v. i. (Fine Arts) To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.
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.
Wiktionary
alt. To make something conventional. vb. To make something conventional.
WordNet
v. make conventional or adapt to conventions; "conventionalized behavior" [syn: conventionalise]
represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head" [syn: stylize, stylise]
Usage examples of "conventionalize".
In addition to the species just described at least two or three others occur in the Nuttall Codex, but so conventionalized that it is out of the question to hazard a guess at their identity.
In the change there was a small silver coin with an inscription in conventionalized Arabic script on one side, and an ornate, empty throne on the other.
The thing that first made itself known as a little tale, usually salacious, dealing with conventionalized types and conventionalized incidents, has proved itself possibly the most flexible of all the literary forms in its adaptation to the needs of the mind that wishes to utter itself, inventively or constructively, upon some fresh occasion, or wishes briefly to criticise or represent some phase or fact of life.
I doubt if we have sized him up so well, or if our somewhat conventionalized ideal of him is perfectly representative.
Even in the pursuits which, by the custom of Christendom, are especially their own, women seldom show any of that elaborately conventionalized and half automatic proficiency which is the pride and boast of most men.
They were batlike, as I have said, folded and each ended in a little ring of conventionalized feathers.
There were mock pilaster capitals with gargoyle heads, a frieze carved with conventionalized fern-fronds.
They were stalwart men, wearing white plumes and short tunics on the breasts and backs of which were woven a conventionalized bird.
It consisted of conventionalized marks and lines that represented landmarks or ideas that were understood.
Encircling the thighs were wide bands of conventionalized design, and on his back he had the picture of a breadfruit tree, done with such spirit that one could all but hear the rustle of the wind through its branches.
As he realized Leovinus was never going to carry through what he was attempting, Scraliontis had tightened his hand around the table lamp - a conventionalized statuette of Titania with her wings providing the illumination.
The breast insignia varied-a cogwheel, a triode circuit diagram, an integral dx, conventionalized waves and gram sheafs and thunderbolts-the heraldry of a government which at least nominally emphasized technology.