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Substantify
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- 1 To give material form or substance to; to embody.
"With the problems of theory domain and theory focus out of the way, we are now ready to design and set down an integrating construct which will substantify, hold together and make opertional the theoretical framework."
- 2 To reify or hypostatize; to treat something that is fluid or abstract as a static entity without regard to nuance or change in character.
"It is partly because almost inevitably a word, referring to a vague intimation of reality, tends to substantify and reify the insight with time."
- 3 To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
"having reduced the intensity and complexity of His life and Love to bring into existence the upper reaches of the spiritual universe (spiritual substances and atmospheres), then with diminished intensity the lower reaches (forces and motions), until through them He was able to breathe life into organic matter and finally substantify inanimate matter."
- 4 To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.
"They are, in fact, equivalent to the infinitive which some languages substantify directly (das Rennen, das Sprechen, le manger, le boire, le dormir)."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin substantificō, from Classical Latin substantia (“substance”) + -ficō.
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