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.

   The pressed Newtonians […] refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. — Coleridge.