Hypostasis

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  • noun. The substance, essence, or underlying reality.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any of the persons of the Trinity.
  • noun. The essential person of Jesus in which his human and divine natures are united.
  • noun. Something that has been hypostatized.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A settling of solid particles in a fluid.
  • noun. Something that settles to the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
  • noun. The settling of blood in the lower part of an organ or the body as a result of decreased blood flow.
  • noun. A condition in which the action of one gene is concealed or suppressed by the action of an allele of a different gene that affects the same part or biochemical process in an organism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That which underlies something else; that which forms the basis of something; foundation; support.
  • noun. In theology, a person of the Trinity; one of the three real and distinct subsistences in the one undivided substance or essence of God.
  • noun. In metaphysics, a substantial mode by which the existence of a substantial nature is determined to subsist by itself and be in communicable; subsistence.
  • noun. A hypothetical substance; a phenomenon or state of things spoken and thought of as if it were a substance.
  • noun. Principle: a term applied by the alchemists to mercury, sulphur, and salt, in accordance with their” doctrine that these were the three principles of all material bodies.
  • noun. In medicine: A sediment, as of the urine; any morbid deposition in the body.
  • noun. An overfullness of blood-vessels caused by a dependent position, as of the veins of the legs (varicose veins), etc.; hypostatic congestion. Also hypostasy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
  • noun. the accumulation of blood in an organ
  • 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
  • noun. (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
  • Word Usage
    "For this reason he understood the term hypostasis/substance not in the objective sense (of a reality present within us), but in the subjective sense, as an expression of an interior attitude, and so, naturally, he also had to understand the term argumentum as a disposition of the subject."
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