conventionalize AmE
conventionalise BrE

In the later popular legends,* his devotees conventionalize the lore of the Preserver into a litany of only ten incarna- tions.

Further failing to note that power represents the capacity 'to enforce one's moral claims' permitting the powerful to 'conventionalize their moral defaults' legitimizing the processes of 'normalized repression' (Gouldner 1971).

Another subplot: Over Mr. Gehry's last 10 projects, including the $100 million Bilbao Guggenheim, he has mastered - largely through the use of an aerospace computer - how to conventionalize the unconventional.

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.

Philosopher Allan Bloom, a student of Leo Strauss, criticized Rawls for failing to account for the existence of natural right in his theory of justice, and wrote that Rawls absolutizes social union as the ultimate goal which would conventionalize everything into artifice.