Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
hypostatize .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to
hypostatize .
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Examples
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I like the technical word "hypostasize", which means to treat an abstraction or a trait as a thing or an agent: "Progress ensures that.......", etc.
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From all this it will be clearly seen that it would be impossible for us to hypostasize a super-moral or sub-moral universe in complete disregard of the primordial conscience of the human soul.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917
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Scholastic synthesis, it is a manifest illogism to hypostasize the abstract conceptions that are necessary for the intelligent apprehension of complete phenomena.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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He may hypostasize the unity of nature, or, what comes to the same thing, the unity of science, in a being who is nothing since he does nothing, an ineffectual
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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