hypostasis

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The underlying reality or substance of something

as far as we know, Porphyry did not consider the divine intellect to be a hypostasis clearly distinct from the Soul, but he often designated it ‘hypercosmic soul’.

The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (comprising a single ‘essence’)

As Gregory of Nyssa had explained, the three hypostases of Father, Son, and Spirit were not objective facts but simply “terms that we use” to express the way in which the “unnameable and unspeakable” divine nature (ousia) adapts itself to the limitations of our human minds.

A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine

Physician: I have viewed your urine, and the hypostasis, / Thick and obscure, doth make the danger great.

The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing

When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis’ of the suppressed gene) is used.

{n} a distinct substance, personality
That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing
Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
the accumulation of blood in an organ
Greek for "substance," the term used to describe the unity of the person of Jesus Christ in early Christological debate while accepting his two natures, divine and human (see Christology)
the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
(sing )
{i} base, foundation, underlying principle; essence or personality of any of the three persons in the Godhead (Theology); accumulation of blood in an organ (Medicine); epistasis (Genetics)
That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment
The projection of inner states or processes
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
Principle; an element; used by the alchemists in speaking of salt, sulphur, and mercury, which they considered as the three principles of all material bodies
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united the accumulation of blood in an organ the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
Substance, nature, or essence Refers to each Person of the Trinity's subsistence in the Godhead: Three divine Persons sharing one nature of essence as God ( RELATED: mia ousia CONTRAST: Adoptionism, Arianism )
A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity
Inherent reality or substance
a conceptual entity considered as a real existent; EV: the fallacious assumption that the poles of a participatory experience are self-contained entities that form a mysterious contact on the occasion of an experience
hypostatic
Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union
hypostatic
Of a gene, affected by hypostasis
hypostatic
{a} constitutive, distinct, personal
hypostases
plural of hypostasis
hypostatic
Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances
hypostatic
Pertaining to hypostasis
hypostatic
Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation
hypostatic
Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary
hypostatic
{s} pertaining to the essence or personality of any of the three persons in the Godhead (Theology); of the accumulation of blood in an organ (Medicine); epistatic (Genetics)
hypostasis

    Hyphenation

    hy·pos·ta·sis

    Synonyms

    subsistence

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () From ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (“sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ὑπό + στάσις (“standing”).
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