Conventionalise

Greenwich will not straighten its streets nor conventionalise its views. ❋ Anna Alice Chapin (1900)

The way to be untrue to Shakespeare here, as always, is to relax the tension of imagination, to conventionalise, to conceive ❋ Unknown (1893)

It is a natural part of civilisation's lust of re-arrangement that we should be so ready to conventionalise the beauty of this world into decorative patterns for our pilgrim tents. ❋ Michael Fairless (1885)

Thus, though we conventionalise practice, we never conventionalise dogma. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

The reason for this might have been found in the fact that acquired characteristics do not receive the stamp of heredity in one generation — his father was a self-made man, and had taught himself rigidly to conventionalise; and it might have been found in the fact that his mother had impressed upon his youthful mind the code of polite procedure in a way which made it appear an unpleasant duty — a mask, highly distasteful, but which must perforce be donned under certain conditions. ❋ Unknown (1993)