hypostasize

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word hypostasize. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word hypostasize, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say hypostasize in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word hypostasize you have here. The definition of the word hypostasize will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofhypostasize, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Verb

hypostasize (third-person singular simple present hypostasizes, present participle hypostasizing, simple past and past participle hypostasized)

  1. (transitive) To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
    • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
      The pressed Newtonians […] refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hypostasize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia