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hypostatise

hypostatise is the alternative form of hypostatize.

Meaning of hypostatize

Verb

hypostatize (third-person singular simple present hypostatizes, present participle hypostatizing, simple past and past participle hypostatized)

  1. (transitive) To render 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.
    • On the other hand, there were a few who could see no objective reality in anything but individuals, and looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.1887 April, Thomas Henry Huxley, “Scientific and Pseudo-scientific Realism”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 30
  2. (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
    • Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision.2005 February, Cardozo Law Review

Forms of hypostatise

third-person singular presenthypostatises
present participlehypostatising
past participlehypostatised
pasthypostatised

Questions about hypostatise

What is hypostatise the alternative form of?
Hypostatise is the alternative form of hypostatize.

Words near hypostatise in the dictionary

  1. hypostatic union
  2. hypostatic unions
  3. hypostatical
  4. hypostatically
  5. hypostatisation
  6. hypostatise
  7. hypostatised
  8. hypostatises
  9. hypostatising
  10. hypostatization
  11. hypostatizations

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