hypostasise

Plato's school, myth helped to hypostasise the ideas and, by divorcing them from their natural basis, to deprive them of their significance and moral function, and render the worship of them superstitious.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

For God was the supreme ideal, to which all other goods were subordinate and instrumental; and if we agree to make a cosmogony out of morals and to hypostasise the series of rational ideals, taken in the inverse order, into a series of efficient causes, it is clear that the highest good, which is at the end of the moral scale, will now figure as

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

“hypostasise their own terms of art” lasted throughout his career.

Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007