The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypostatize \Hy*pos"ta*tize\, v. t.
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To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.
Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.
--Pop. Sci. Monthly. To attribute actual or personal existence to.
--Sir W. Hamilton.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character. 2 (context transitive English) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
WordNet
v. construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity [syn: hypostatise]
Usage examples of "hypostatize".
The first is a hypostatized legend, the second a metaphysical personification, the third a philosophical hypothesis.
Then, to reveal to men the truth, to regenerate them and conjoin them through himself with the Father in the experience of eternal life, the hypostatized Logos left his transcendent glory in heaven and came into the world in the person of Jesus.
It is simply said that that manifested and revealing portion of the Divine attributes which constituted the hypostatized Logos was incarnated and displayed in a perfect, sinless sample of man, thus exhibiting to the world a finite image of God.
The mediation that Descartes invoked in his reaffirmation of dualism is hypostatized by Kant, not in the divinity but nonetheless in a pseudo-ontological critique-in an ordering function of consciousness and an indistinct appetite of the will.