substantify

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.

Matthew tries to draw an analogy between the divine person and the divine nature: just as the infinite divine nature can be substantified in many divine persons, so the infinite divine person can substantify many created natures.

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.

I think that Aristotle may have noticed that pressing the question "When is Y a potential X?" seemed to "substantify" accidental states of bodies, and dimly saw that if one once began to chop up the realm of the indefinite into quasi-unities one would be well on the road to, as we would put it, a law-event framework of scientific explanation as opposed to a thing-nature framework."

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.

We see that the refusal to “substantify” particular beings reduces them to mere functions, types of activity, beingless things; for example, when the occupant of a hotel-room is designated by his room-number, when human beings — wife, child, servant - are treated merely pragmatically, for their use-value, or when servants are called by a stock servant-name ( “ Marie” or “ James” ) instead of their own ( for the personal name denotes the unique place of the individual ) .

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).

Lexical items are more or less the accidental results of transformations which substantify, or 'incorporate', the trees referred to in (i), or constituent parts ('subtrees') of them, into entities which, for reasons of practical economy are labelled with single lexical items.