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Definition of Conventionalized
1. Adjective. Using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous. "A stylized mode of theater production"
Definition of Conventionalized
1. Verb. (present participle of conventionalize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conventionalized
Literary usage of Conventionalized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Education: Its Problems and Processes by John Alexander Hull Keith (1905)
"THE VALUES OF conventionalized SYMBOLS TO TEACHING. ... (a) The conventionalized
symbol is an effective and rapid means of expressing one's ideas. ..."
2. Catalogue of Arretine Pottery by George Henry Chase (1916)
"At the bottom of the main field, a conventional laurel leaf pattern; at the top,
a band of large conventionalized flowers (daisies? ..."
3. The Woman's Book: Dealing Practically with the Modern Conditions of Home (1894)
"... a SUg- Leaves and Flowers of the Dogtooth Violet, conventionalized and adapted
lo Embroidery, gestion of the forms By a Pupil of she School oi Design, ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"etc.). The eye or star in its centre, like that in the ollin, and circle (no.
4), signify Polaris ; the conventionalized head and antennae are ..."
5. The Antiquary (1908)
"... the pillars at the spring of the outermost moulding of the arches, which, in
some cases at least, appear to be portraits, somewhat conventionalized. ..."
6. Peruvian Fabrics by Morris De Camp Crawford (1916)
"... hair and wool and the cord is a two-ply closely twisted cotton. Fig. 31 (B-4751).
Figure. Pile Knot Ribbon containing part of a conventionalized Human ..."
7. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial by Louis Christian Mullgardt, Maud Wotring Raymond, John Hamlin (1915)
"The decorative motives employed on the surrounding arcade are of conventionalized
forms of prehistoric plant and animal life, expressive of evolution. ..."
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