Hŷ-pŏs'ta-sīze, v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. HYPOSTASIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. HYPOSTA-SIZING.] To make into a distinct substance; to regard as a separate substance.

The pressed Newtonians ... refused to hypostatize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.