conventionalized
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How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.
a stylized mode of theater production
In the report, the tablets are now called a "linear script" as opposed to the "hieroglyphic or conventionalized pictographic script."
Children will sometimes interpret proverbs in a literal sense, not yet knowing how to understand the conventionalized metaphor.