artifactualize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From artifactual + -ize.
Verb
[edit]artifactualize (third-person singular simple present artifactualizes, present participle artifactualizing, simple past and past participle artifactualized)
- (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 […]