1) Hypostatize 
• (v. t.) To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
Hy·pos'ta·size transitive verb 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. 
to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.