artifactualize

English

Etymology

artifactual +‎ -ize

Verb

artifactualize (third-person singular simple present artifactualizes, present participle artifactualizing, simple past and past participle artifactualized)

  1. (transitive) To convert into an artifact.
    • 2012, Kamilla Elliott, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction, page 134:
      In Evelina, memory produces matriarchal resemblance; other Gothic novels artifactualize it in portraits. A father in The Orphan of the Rhine wears the miniature portrait of his dead wife, turning to it as confessional and icon […]
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