In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
HYPOSTASIZE
Verb
hypostasize (third-person singular simple present hypostasizes, present participle hypostasizing, simple past and past participle hypostasized)
(transitive) To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
Source: Wiktionary
Hy*pos"ta*size, v. t.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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