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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
conventionalise .
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Examples
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When a designer, following his own automatic impulse, conventionalises a form, he makes a legitimate exchange, substituting fidelity to his apperceptive instincts for fidelity to his external impressions.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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But it is extremely hard to make out exactly what this experience is, because, in the very effort to make it out, our reflecting mind, full of everyday ideas, is always tending to transform it by the application of these ideas, and so to elicit a result which, instead of representing the fact, conventionalises it.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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