Definition of "conventionalizing" []

• Present participle of conventionalize. (verb)

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• "Tümpel called attention to the fact that, when they set about conventionalizing the octopus, the Mycenæan artists often resorted to the practice of representing pairs of "arms" as units and so making four-limbed and three-limbed forms (Fig. 23), which Houssay regards as the prototypes of the swastika and the triskele respectively."
• "We find in their insufficiencies the same old assimilating of all that could be assimilated, and disregard for the unassimilable, conventionalizing into the explanation that vitrified forts were made by prehistoric peoples who built vast fires -- often remote from wood-supply -- to melt externally, and to cement together, the stones of their constructions."
• "Stamping and perforating: (_a_) Machine practice -- pedaling, guiding needle, threading machine, and learning to adjust the different parts. (_b_) Stamping on different materials with the different mediums; composition of the different mediums, liquid and dry. (_c_) Copying patterns for perforating; nature study for motifs; conventionalizing those to apply them to materials."