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/hˌaɪpəʊstˈeɪsɪs/
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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
- the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
- the accumulation of blood in an organ
- (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
How To Use hypostasis In A Sentence
- For he is the image not of the will nor of anything else except the actual hypostasis of the Father.
- It must be distinguished from ecchymosis the result of a bruise, by making an incision into the part; in the case of hypostasis a few small bloody points of divided arteries will be seen, in the case of ecchymosis the subcutaneous tissues are infiltrated with blood-clot. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- The non-identity of hypostasis and ousia is, I take it, suggested even by our western brethren, where, from a suspicion of the inadequacy of their own language, they have given the word ousia in the Greek, to the end that any possible difference of meaning might be preserved in the clear and unconfounded distinction of terms. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
- It would seem that Babai means that "a man" (individuum vagum) is the hypostasis, but not the person, until we add the individual characteristics by which he is known to be Peter or Paul. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- As an aesthetic criterion of evaluation, this requirement ties the success or failure of the object to a form of hypostasis.
- The mystical fathers of the church also teach of what can be called a fourth type of icon-the hypostasis of God, the image of His being.
- 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. Latest Articles
- Nozick protests that he does not, as Hacking charges, describe rationality as a ‘hypostasised entity.’
- Not that Origen has not yet the later terminology [Greek: ousia, hypostasis, hypokeimenon, prosôpon]. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
- On the other hand their word hypostasis, from hypo-histemi, was taken to correspond to the Latin substantia, from sub-stare. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
