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hypostasize, v.|hɪp-, haɪˈpɒstəsaɪz| [f. prec. + -ize.] trans. To make into or regard as a self-existent substance or person; to embody, impersonate. Cf. hypostatize.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 90 The power and principle of acidification must be embodied and as it were impersonated and hypostasized in this gas. 1817― Biog. Lit. I. 98 The admission of the logos as hypostasized in no respect removed my doubts concerning the Incarnation and the Redemption by the cross. 1877Symonds Renaissance in Italy, Reviv. Learn. 202 The products of speculative analysis are hypostasised as divine persons. Hence hypostasiˈzation, the action of hypostasizing, or regarding as a substance.
1884Athenæum 19 Apr. 496/3 The second period [of Plato's philosophy] is marked by the hypostasization of universals. |