artifactualize
verbEtymology From artifactual + -ize.
1
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: