hypostasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
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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.
Base: hypo
Inflected forms:
form: hypostases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypostaseis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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).
gloss: 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’).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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?
As Gregory of Nyssa had explained, the three hypostases of Father, Son, and Spirit were not objective facts but simply “terms that we use” to express the way in which the “unnameable and unspeakable” divine nature (ousia) adapts itself to the limitations of our human minds.
As a result of this verbal pact, the Trinity consists of three equal hypostaseis in one ousia: three equal Persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) sharing one Essence or Substance (Trinity or Godhead).
gloss: The underlying reality or substance of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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’.
gloss: The underlying reality or substance of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The underlying reality or substance of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis’ of the suppressed gene) is used.
gloss: Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Synonyms: subsistence
Related words: anhypostasia
enhypostasia
hypostatize
Derived words: hypostatic
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: същност
roman: sǎštnost
lang: Bulgarian
word: есенция
roman: esencija
lang: Catalan
word: hipòstasi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 本質 /本质
roman: běnzhì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 實體 /实体
roman: shítǐ
lang: Finnish
word: hypostaasi
lang: French
word: hypostase
lang: Galician
word: hipostase
lang: German
word: Hypostase
lang: Greek
word: υπόσταση
roman: ypóstasi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὑπόστασις
roman: hupóstasis
lang: Polish
word: hipostaza
lang: Romanian
word: esență
lang: Russian
word: гипо́стасис
roman: gipóstasis
lang: Vietnamese
word: vị cách