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hypostatize

[ hahy-pos-tuh-tahyz, hi- ]

verb (used with object)

hypostatized, hypostatizing.
  1. to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.


hypostatize

/ ɪˈɒəˌٲɪ /

verb

  1. to regard or treat as real
  2. to embody or personify
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌDzٲپˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·Dzt·پ·tDz noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of hypostatize1

First recorded in 1820–30; from Greek hypostatós, hypóstatos “set under, (in Stoic philosophy) substantially existing” ( hypostatic ) + -ize
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This conception of wisdom became still further hypostatized.

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The Chinese could not hypostatize in the manner of the West.

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As Green tended to hypostatize the organic conception, so Dewey would make it a concrete reality, with the further specification that it must be something given to psychological observation.

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This he accounts for by by hypostatizing a "raw material" in consciousness which is, must be, present.

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What it demands of the ghost, and of all hypostatized or anthropomorphized ultimate value-forms, is that they shall work, and its life as an institution depends upon making them work.

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