conventionalize

• conventionalise

From conventional + -ize.

conventionalize (third-person singular simple present conventionalizes, present participle conventionalizing, simple past and past participle conventionalized)

1. (transitive) To make something conventional.
   • 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1:

     A human language is a conventionalized communication system that is acquired, produced, and understood in a community of people, to be used in their day-to-day lives.