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artifactualize

artifactualize verb: to convert into an artifact.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To convert into an artifact.
    • 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 […]2012, Kamilla Elliott, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction, page 134

Forms of artifactualize

third-person singular presentartifactualizes
present participleartifactualizing
past participleartifactualized
pastartifactualized

Origin of artifactualize

From artifactual + -ize.

Questions about artifactualize

What does artifactualize mean?
Artifactualize means to convert into an artifact.
What part of speech is artifactualize?
Artifactualize is a verb.
What is the past tense of artifactualize?
The past tense of artifactualize is artifactualized.

Words near artifactualize in the dictionary

  1. artifactualist
  2. artifactualists
  3. artifactualities
  4. artifactuality
  5. artifactualization
  6. artifactualize
  7. artifactualized
  8. artifactualizes
  9. artifactualizing
  10. artifactually
  11. artifical

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