conventionalize
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Con·ven′tion·al·ize transitive verb [past tense & past participle Conventionalized; present participle & verbal noun Conventionalizing.]
1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. [Also spelled conventionalise.]
2. 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.
Con·ven′tion·al·ize intransitive verb
Fine arts To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, transitive verb, 2.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54