Word Meanings - CONVENTIONALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the

Additional info about word: CONVENTIONALIZE

1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage. To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others. To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

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• BROKERY
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• BREVIARY
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• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• BRAZIL NUT
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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• BRAST
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• BREAKMAN
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• BROID
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• UNDERDOLVEN
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• BROIDERER
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• BRUISEWORT
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  In a conventional manner.
• BREATHE
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• OPPROBRIOUS
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• UNEMPLOYMENT
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• TECTIBRANCHIA
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