hypostasize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of hypostasize
First recorded in 1800–10; hypostas(is) + -ize
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From all this it will be clearly seen that it would be impossible for us to hypostasize a super-moral or sub-moral universe in complete disregard of the primordial conscience of the human soul.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
It is goodness and happiness hypostasized, and offered as compensation for martyrdom.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
Such thought 300 and such reality are mere abstractions, hypostasized by false metaphysics; they are elements of truth rent asunder, and destroyed in the rending.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
Those ideas are hypostasized abstractions which are taken from the uniformly coexisting characteristics of objects.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
What is the whole system from Philo to Plotinus, and thence to Proclus inclusively, but one fanciful process of hypostasizing logical conceptions and generic terms?
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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