Hypostasize
Pronunciation : Hy*pos"ta*size
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.] The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913