Substantify

Quick meaning: Substantify is a verb meaning To give material form or substance to; to embody.

Meaning

To give material form or substance to; to embody.

More Meanings

1. To reify or hypostatize; to treat something that is fluid or abstract as a static entity without regard to nuance or change in character.
2. To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
3. (linguistics) To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.

Example Sentences

It is partly because almost inevitably a word, referring to a vague intimation of reality, tends to substantify and reify the insight with time.

The First does not need two elements—one being to substantify (give substance to) its “essence”; the other to create or communicate “through which something else comes from it” (alFarabi, 1985, p. 93).

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.

Word Forms

• substantifies
• substantifying
• substantified

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include substantiate, substantize, substance, substantialize, substantialise, substantivate.

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