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hypostatise

v. construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity [syn: hypostatize]

Usage examples of "hypostatise".

This Being must be a derived existence, which has already in some fashion a finite element in itself, because it is the hypostatised Word of creation, which has an origin.

Church represented as completely hypostatised, and the outlook on the history of the time is put into the background.

But when a later appearance was conceived as the aim of a series of preparations, it was frequently hypostatised and placed above these preparations even in time.

We are wont to get rid of these fundamental facts by hypostatising the ecclesiastical principle or the common ecclesiastical spirit, and by this normal hypostasis, measuring, approving or condemning the doctrines of the theologians, unconcerned about the actual conditions and frequently following a hysteron-proteron.