HYPOSTASIS

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

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Etymology

Noun

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 ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’). [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.

Synonyms

• subsistence

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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