v. Also -ise. [f. CONVENTIONAL + -IZE.]
trans. To make conventional; to bring under conventional rules; in Art, to treat conventionally, represent in a conventional manner.
1854. Ruskin, Lect. Archit., 154. You will often hear … that architectural ornament ought to be conventionalized.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., iii. 43. Natural gestures were very commonly conventionalized and abridged to save time.
Hence Conventionalized ppl. a., Conventionalizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1841. Daily Picayune (New Orleans), 15 Sept., 2/2. It was with feelings of downright melancholy that we read, a few days since, an article in a northern paper, laughing at the conventionalizing in use among editors.
1862. Macm. Mag., April, 528. We miss a little of the needful conventionalizing suitable to architecture.
1879. Academy, 39. Decoration with slightly conventionalized irises and lilies.
