conventionalize
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I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
They're just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely.
From This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
To the true romance the idea of marriage is at first repugnant, will not be thought about, for it seeks to square and conventionalize a great burst of the spirit.
From Hempfield A Novel by David Grayson
I like to draw from flowers and leaves and things about me; conventionalize them sometimes, and sometimes paint them just as they are,—in soft silk stitches.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
They're perfectly legitimate to study and they're interesting, but the reason I'm less interested in them is because they're conventionalized.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2023
There are displays, often conventionalized within the norms of a culture: displays of power, strength, wealth, beauty, generosity, cleverness, and social status.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2013
He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib.”
From Slate ● May 18, 2013
In the same spirit, Gainsborough conventionalized his country genre scenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The conventionalized figure of some water-fowl or fish, such as the swan, loon, or sturgeon, forms an appropriate emblem, and may also serve to name your craft.
From Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls by Charles A. Eastman
Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
As to what Davidson might have become under the conventionalizing influences of an official position, it would be idle to speculate.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
The Arundel Society have published some meritorious plates of this kind from Angelico,—not, however, paying respect enough to the local colors, but conventionalizing the whole too much into outline.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
Art for art, insisted upon in this way, could only end in conventionalizing the very thing it was meant to assist.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
The modifying or conventionalizing forces are, therefore, quite vague.
From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by William Henry Holmes
