transitive verb
or hy·pos·ta·tise hīˈpästəˌtīz
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Greek hypostat os substantially existing + English -ize or -ise
: to make into or regard as a hypostasis:
a. : to transform (a conceptual entity) into or construe as a self-subsistent substance
we are told that the conception of God, or the Sacred, or the Mana, or the Totem, is nothing but hypostatized society itself — P.A.Sorokin
b. : to assume as concrete : reify
our ingrained habit of hypostatizing impressions, of seeing things and not sense-data — Susanne K. Langer