conventionalize

We do not separate the features as frequently as did that ancient people, but we conventionalize them as often.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

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

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

"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 Melvin Moses Knight

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

All thinking, all intellectual activity, is by no means of the image and the picture; all words are the product of the imagining, and the very letters of the alphabet are conventionalized pictures.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould

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 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

This justifies the habit of conventionalizing natural forms, and the tendency of some kinds of hieratic art, like the Byzantine or Egyptian, to affect a rigid symmetry of posture.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

Decadence is more manifest in the restriction and conventionalizing of the material of tragedy.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

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