entify

present singular third person entifies · participle present entifying · participle past entified · past entified

1. To make into an entity, attribute objective existence to.

   The man unnerved me, but his nonsensical rambling became a sort of entertaining white-noise sound track to everything that I pretended or perhaps hoped would entify, cystallize, or coalesce at some point into something vaguely useful or at least coherent, however shapeless.

   2009, Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Influx Press, page 151