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Hy*pos"ta*size (?), v. t. 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.
From The Vocabula Review: (thanks again, Jackie, for giving it to me_
Half of the human race lives in manifest obedience to the
lunar rhythm; and there is evidence to show that the
psychological and therefore the spiritual life, not only of
women, but of men too, mysteriously ebbs and flows with the
changes of the moon. There are unreasoned joys, inexplicable
miseries, laughters and remorses without a cause. Their sudden
and fantastic alternations constitute the ordinary weather of our
minds. These moods, of which the more gravely numinous may
be hypostasized as gods, the lighter, if we will, as hobgoblins
and fairies, are the children of the blood and humours. But the
blood and humours obey, among many other masters, the
changing moon. Touching the soul directly through the eyes
and, indirectly, along the dark channels of the blood, the moon
is doubly a divinity. — Aldous Huxley, Meditations of the Moon
