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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: conventionalize)
WordNet
adj. using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous; "a stylized mode of theater production" [syn: conventionalised, stylized, stylised]
Usage examples of "conventionalized".
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.