artifactualize

English

Etymology

From 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 […]