Definition of hypostasize in English:
hypostasize
(British hypostasise)
verb hʌɪˈpɒstəsʌɪzhīˈpästəˌsīz
[with object]formal Treat or represent (something abstract) as a concrete reality.
〈正式〉将（抽象物）视为实体，使实体化
if religion is beyond speech or predication, as Gandhi affirms, can it be hypostasized?
Example sentencesExamples
- The clown, the early counterpart of the trickster, would have in ritual the role of evoking the violation of taboo, hypostasized in myth.
- The practical circumstances of this ‘emancipation’ could not be sustained in the hypostasising jargon of meaning.
- Love as God's mode of existence ‘hypostasizes’ God, constitutes his being.
- Nozick protests that he does not, as Hacking charges, describe rationality as a ‘hypostasised entity.’
- To posit a rupture is to hypostasize a piercing through; an Aufhebung which neither lifts up nor preserves the dialectic.