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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.

Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. Bp. Pearson.

To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance. Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

r movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. Carpenter.

. A combining form from the Greek private, personal, peculiar, distinct.

Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.

r more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

the hip joint, divisible into two parts, the iliac and great psoas, -- often regarded as distinct muscles.

To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton.

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.

Not apprehensible, or readily apprehensible, by the mind; unreal; as, impalpable distinctions.

ave we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance.

Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. South.

An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.

or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress. Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind. Locke.

n polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid.

Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden.

Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [R.] Coleridge.

or distinguished. H. Spenser. The Lettish race, not a primitive stock of the Slavi, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable. Tooke.