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hypostasize

hypostasize verb: to hypostatize.

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 hypostasize

third-person singular presenthypostasizes
present participlehypostasizing
past participlehypostasized
pasthypostasized

Words formed from hypostasize

Questions about hypostasize

What does hypostasize mean?
Hypostasize means to hypostatize.
What part of speech is hypostasize?
Hypostasize is a verb.
What is the past tense of hypostasize?
The past tense of hypostasize is hypostasized.

Words near hypostasize in the dictionary

  1. hypostasised
  2. hypostasises
  3. hypostasising
  4. hypostasization
  5. hypostasizations
  6. hypostasize
  7. hypostasized
  8. hypostasizes
  9. hypostasizing
  10. hypostasy
  11. hypostatic

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