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hypostasise

hypostasise is the alternative form of hypostasize.

Meaning of hypostasize

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To hypostatize.
    • The pressed Newtonians […] refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether.1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend

Forms of hypostasise

third-person singular presenthypostasises
present participlehypostasising
past participlehypostasised
pasthypostasised

Questions about hypostasise

What is hypostasise the alternative form of?
Hypostasise is the alternative form of hypostasize.

Words near hypostasise in the dictionary

  1. hypostaining
  2. hypostains
  3. hypostaseis
  4. hypostases
  5. hypostasis
  6. hypostasise
  7. hypostasised
  8. hypostasises
  9. hypostasising
  10. hypostasization
  11. hypostasizations

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