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con·ven·tion·al·ize       (kən-věn'shə-nə-līz')  Pronunciation Key  tr.v.   con·ven·tion·al·ized, con·ven·tion·al·iz·ing, con·ven·tion·al·iz·es To make conventional. con·ven'tion·al·i·za'tion (-lĭ-zā'shən) n.

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conventionalize
verb
1.	make conventional or adapt to conventions; "conventionalized behavior"
2.	represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head" [syn: stylize]

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Conventionalize

Con*ven"tion*al\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.]

1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. --Sir M. Hale.

2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." --Whewell.

The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. --Motley.

The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. --Latham.

3. (Fine Arts) (a) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. (b) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.