alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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conventionalize - represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head"
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"
She was sick with love of him, and he danced with her as he would dance with any woman, as he would dance with a man who was a good dancer and upon whose arm was tied a handkerchief to conventionalize him into a woman.
The frequent use of expressions originally involved in the selection of points of access to a high-level model conventionalizes the illocutionary force conveyed and gives rise to entrenched constructions.
Having established, for example, that Beowulf conventionalizes and dramatizes society's traditional thought, the author turns to Christian poetry, 'a branch of a narrative system with its centre beyond vernacular tradition' (p.
