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Definition of Hypostasis
1. Noun. The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene.
2. Noun. The accumulation of blood in an organ.
3. 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.
Generic synonyms: Almighty, Creator, Divine, God Almighty, Godhead, Jehovah, Lord, Maker
Group relationships: Blessed Trinity, Holy Trinity, Sacred Trinity, Trinity
Specialized synonyms: Father, Father-god, Fatherhood, Logos, Son, Word, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Paraclete
4. Noun. (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality.
Category relationships: Metaphysics
Derivative terms: Hypostatize
Definition of Hypostasis
1. n. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
Definition of Hypostasis
1. Noun. (context: medicine obsolete) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. (defdate 14th-19th c.) ¹
2. Noun. (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 (comprising a single ‘essence’). (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
3. Noun. (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
4. Noun. (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypostasis
1. [n -STASES]
Medical Definition of Hypostasis
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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. 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 Council of Alexandria (a.d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostasis
Literary usage of Hypostasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It ia obvious that this is the phenomenon to which Severus referred. Catholics would
add that in the Incarnation conversely two natures are one hypostasis. ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"Now the paternal Mind, as Psellus informs us, is the second hypostasis ...
to it that the third hypostasis of that Persian trinity was that which they ..."
3. A Church History by Christopher Wordsworth (1887)
"He also acknowledged that while it was right to speak of one hypostasis as
designating the one substance of the Godhead in the three Persons of the Blessed ..."
4. Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church: With an Introduction on the by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1884)
"Two words had then come into antagonism, of which one was closely connected with
the The controversy re- hypostasis. These words, which in the Greek of ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1857)
"... time before the words ' hypostasis' and 'Homoousion' received that definite
meaning they now bear. The Fathers of Antioch, as Neale very justly remarks, ..."
6. Scientific Theism by Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1885)
"And he declares: " The hypostasis of the thought-forms is the essence of 'all
... For the retort is cogent and unanswerable that, if the hypostasis of the ..."
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