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hypostasis

noun
/haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/UK/haɪˈpɑstəsɪs/US

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis, “sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence”), from ὑπό (hupó, “under”) + στάσις (stásis, “standing”). Morphologically hypo- + -stasis.

  1. derived from ὑπόστασις
  2. borrowed from hypostasis

Definitions

  1. A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

    • Phi[sitian]. I view’d your vrine, and the Hipoſtates ^([sic – meaning Hipoſtaſis]) / Thick and obſcure doth make your danger great, […]
    • Thus the kidneys also have their particular excrement which is contained in it and is the hypostasis (deposit).

  2. The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his…

    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 (sharing a single ‘essence’).

    • the hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
    • What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis?

  3. The underlying reality or substance of something.

    • Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges".
    • The One, Intellect and Soul, then, are the three transcendent sources – or hypostases – of existence.
    • as far as we know, Porphyry did not consider the divine intellect to be a hypostasis clearly distinct from the Soul, but he often designated it ‘hypercosmic soul’.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.

      • When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis’ of the suppressed gene) is used.

    2. Postmortem lividity

      Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

      • I am, of course, excluding the hypostasis produced by his having lain a whole week face downward in the cellar. That, naturally, is all in the front part of the body.

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Derived

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA