artifactualize

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verb

To convert into an artifact.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person artifactualizes · participle present artifactualizing · participle past artifactualized · past artifactualized

  1. transitiveTo 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

Origin

From artifactual + -ize.

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APA

artifactualize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artifactualize

MLA

“artifactualize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artifactualize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “artifactualize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artifactualize.

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