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hypostasis
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypostasis \Hy*pos"ta*sis\, n.; pl. Hypostases. [L., fr. Gr. ? subsistence, substance, fr. ? to stand under; ? under + ? to stand, middle voice of ? to cause to stand. See Hypo-, and Stand.]
That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
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(Theol.) 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. 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.
(Med.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine obsolete English) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. (14th-19th c.) 2 (context theology English) 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’). (from 16th c.) 3 (context philosophy English) The underlying reality or substance of something. (from 17th c.) 4 (context genetics English) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. (from 20th c.) 5 postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
WordNet
n. the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: epistasis]
the accumulation of blood in an organ
any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
[also: hypostases (pl)]
Wikipedia
Hypostatic or Hypostasis (from the Ancient Greek ὑπόστᾰσις) may refer to:
- Hypostatic abstraction (mathematics and logic)
- Hypostasis (linguistics), personification of entities
- Hypostatic gene, as a result of epistasis
- Hypostasis (philosophy and religion), the essence, or underlying reality
- Hypostasis (medicine), Livor mortis
- Hypostasis (personality), a psychological model, or theory, of personality masks
- Hypostatic union, Christian concept
- Holding current (electronics) known as the hypostatic
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Sediment in a liquid, including:
- Sediment#Dregs
In linguistics, a hypostasis (from the Greek word ὑπόστασις meaning foundation, base or that which stands behind), is a relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality. It often connotes the personification of typically elemental powers, such as wind and fire, or human life, fertility, and death. In descriptive linguistics, the term was first introduced by Leonard Bloomfield to account for uses of synsemantic words as autosemantic in sentences such as I'm tired of your ifs and buts. In this sense, the usage meaning of the word is referred to as a whole.
The term hypostasis is considered to be scientifically and culturally neutral, for the purpose of describing name-to-term relationships that, within religion and theology might be termed a " deification," or otherwise by the more pejorative " idolatry." The concept of "hypostasis" functions as a kind of conceptual inverse for terms which may have originated as personal names, and have linguistically evolved to become common terms for general concepts and qualities.
Hypostasis (Greek ὑπόστασις) is the underlying state or underlying substance, and is the fundamental reality that supports all else. In Neoplatonism the hypostasis of the soul, intellect ( nous) and the One was addressed by Plotinus.
In Christian theology, a hypostasis or person is one of the three persons of the Trinity.
Hypostasis (from Greek hypo- "below" + stasis "standing") is the essence of metafiction, a rare, literary moment when characters in fiction become aware of their own fictional nature.
Usage examples of "hypostasis".
It extended to his fate in the other world--too probably, in his eyes, that endless, yearless, undivided fate, wherein the breath still breathed into the soul of man by his Maker is no longer the breath of life, but the breath of infinite death-- Sole Positive of Night, Antipathist of Light, giving to the ideal darkness a real and individual hypostasis in helpless humanity, keeping men alive that the light in them may continue to be darkness.
Nevertheless action is attributed to the nature as to that whereby the person or hypostasis acts.
To him that is born it is attributed as to its subject: and this, properly speaking, is the hypostasis, not the nature.
Consequently, nativity is attributed to the person or hypostasis as to the proper subject of being born, but not to the nature.
Now, conception and birth are attributed to the person and hypostasis in respect of that nature in which it is conceived and born.
Therefore it is plainly a heresy condemned long since by the Church to say that in Christ there are two hypostases, or two supposita, or that the union did not take place in the hypostasis or suppositum.
For some conceded one person in Christ, but maintained two hypostases, or two supposita, saying that a man, composed of body and soul, was from the beginning of his conception assumed by the Word of God.
So likewise the first opinion which holds two hypostases, and the third which holds an accidental union, are not to be styled opinions, but heresies condemned by the Church in Councils.
But according to such as hold that there are two hypostases or two supposita in Christ, it may fittingly and properly be said that the Son of God assumed a man.
And into the same error fall those who suppose two supposita or hypostases in Christ, since it is impossible to understand how, of two things distinct in suppositum or hypostasis, one can be properly predicated of the other: unless merely by a figurative expression, inasmuch as they are united in something, as if we were to say that Peter is John because they are somehow mutually joined together.
But according to those who suppose two persons or two hypostases or two supposita in Christ, no reason prevents Christ being called the adopted Son of God.
But if it be said that there are several persons or hypostases in Christ, it would follow that there would be, absolutely speaking, several adorations.
I grieve at your ignorance, Timocles, and I will instruct you in the truth, in order that knowing that there really exists a God in three hypostases, you may obey this God as a child obeys its father.
Son was only adopted by the Father, others wearily debate who precedes whom, and each, monster that he is, is drawn into his monstrous error, multiplying the hypostases of the divinity, believing that the Supreme Good is three different substances or even four.
A green book hardly larger than my hand and no thicker than my index finger appeared to be a collection of devotions, full of enameled pictures of ascetic pantocrators and hypostases with black halos and gemlike robes.