Associations to the word «Hypostatize»
Wiktionary
HYPOSTATIZE, verb. (transitive) To make into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
HYPOSTATIZE, verb. (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
Dictionary definition
HYPOSTATIZE, verb. Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.