conventionalize

Whichever group may be the oldest the art is there already advanced and the decoration has taken forms which must have occupied many kinds of workers to conventionalize from natural objects.”

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

It was as if she had secretly determined—God knows from what pressure of lonely sorrow—to conventionalize her life, to present the world hereafter nothing but an even surface of unobtrusive conformity.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

"It is the incessant, continuous pressure of the herd ... to conventionalize its methods of acquiring the gratification of its needs."

From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Knight, Melvin Moses

I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

"I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.

From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

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

"Belasco Collar" At Stony Brook, N. Y., where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect.

From Time Magazine Archive

For instance, the fondant can be molded into cups of conventionalized flower designs.

From Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables by Hall, Mary Elizabeth

Finally the hieratic simplified this form by symbolizing and conventionalizing to a large extent the hieroglyphic characters.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

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 Holmes, William Henry

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

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 James, Henry

Further, the restricted action of Rowe's play causes a conventionalizing of the characters.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.