conventionalize

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 Grayson, David

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 Lindsay, Vachel

"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)

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

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

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

Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures.

From Time Magazine Archive

From their hands it passed to the Assyrians, who simplified some characters and conventionalized many more, and used the script during the entire period of their national existence from 1500 B.C. to 607 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

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

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

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

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 Santayana, George

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