hypostasize

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

1. (transitive) To hypostatize.
   • 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:

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

• “hypostasize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.