Hypostasize

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hypostasize \Hy*pos"ta*size\, v. t.
     To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an
     existing being; to hypostatize. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the


           law of gravitation into an ether.        --Coleridge.
     Hypostatic