hypostasis
(noun) (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ
(noun) any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
hypostasis
(noun) the accumulation of blood in an organ
hypostasis, epistasis
(noun) the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hypostasis (countable and uncountable, plural hypostases or hypostaseis)
(medicine, now, historical) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. [from 14th c.]
(theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ānaturesā, human and divine), or of the three āpersonsā of the Trinity (sharing a single āessenceā). [from 16th c.]
(philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. [from 17th c.]
(genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. [from 20th c.]
Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
• subsistence
Source: Wiktionary
Hy*pos"ta*sis, n.; pl. Hypostases. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. Hypo-, and Stand.]
1. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
2. (Theol.)
Definition: 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.
Note: The Council of Alexandria (a.d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person. Schaff-Herzog.
3. 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.
4. (Med.)
Definition: That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 January 2025
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; āowls have nocturnal habitsā; āshe had a habit twirling the ends of her hairā; ālong use had hardened him to itā
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
