conventionalise

English

Etymology

From conventional +‎ -ise.

Verb

conventionalise (third-person singular simple present conventionalises, present participle conventionalising, simple past and past participle conventionalised)

1. Alternative spelling of conventionalize.
   • 2008, Ruth Wodak, Veronika Koller, Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, page 256:

     Speeches during parliamentary debates, however, belong to linguistic action patterns in which interruptions and hecklings (Burkhardt 2004) are generally conventionalised and accepted as facultative reactions […]

Derived terms

• unconventionalise