Definition of Hypostases

1. Noun. (plural of hypostasis) ¹

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Definition of Hypostases

1. hypostasis [n] - See also: hypostasis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostases

hyposmotic
hyposomatotropism
hyposomia
hyposomniac
hypospadiac
hypospadiases
hyposphagma
hyposphresia
hyposphyxia
hypospray
hyposprays
hypostases (current term)
hypostasis
hypostasize
hypostasized
hypostasizes
hypostasizing
hypostatic
hypostatic abscess
hypostatic congestion
hypostatic ectasia
hypostatic pneumonia
hypostatical
hypostatically
hypostatisation
hypostatise

Literary usage of Hypostases

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... supreme and most simple God, which «orne of that sect placed above their three principles. Jamblichus speaks only of two principles or divine hypostases ..."

2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"But, besides these two hypostases, there is also a ... as containing three hypostases in it ; the first of those three seems to have been that which was ..."

3. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1895)
"For to say that the Son is -Mith the Father is to exhibit at once the distinction of the hypostases, and the inseparability of the fellowship. ..."

4. A System of Christian Doctrine by Isaak August Dorner (1880)
"The'Absolute Personality in its relation to the Divine hypostases and Attributes? Since the absolute Personality is the eternally present result in the ..."

5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... universal beings (as the three hypostases of the Platonic trinity from the mouth of an individual called ..."

6. Defensio Fidei Nicænæ: A Defense of the Nicene Creed, Out of the Extant by George Bull, Edward Burton, Joannes Ernestus Grabe (1851)
"When, therefore, Dionysius of Rome denies that there are in the Godhead three divided and separate hypostases, he clearly meant the same as the other ..."

7. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"They, who were for calling the Three Divine Persons three hypostases, charged their adversaries as Sabellians ; and they, on the contrary, returned the ..."

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