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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
- The world was a mirror of ours, one person's life was a refraction to his hypostasis.
- Adequate doctrine must put essence and hypostasis on the same level of reality and importance.
- _On the contrary, _ others, considering only the subject of filiation, which is the person or hypostasis, put only one filiation in Christ, just as there is but one hypostasis or person. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
- Rare jargon we made of it; talking of cosmothetie idealism or hypothetical dualism, of noetic and dianoetic principles, of hylozoism and hypostasis, and demonstrating the most undemonstrable propositions by appeals to the law of contradiction or of excluded middle. Beulah
- For the Fathers and for the theologians of the Middle Ages, it was clear that the Greek word hypostasis was to be rendered in Latin with the term substantia. Latest Articles
- The historical journalism opens out that they are similar in their frameworks, consistent in their hypostasis, and uniform in their significance between the furthermost one and the latest one.
- That Nestorius cannot, on the contrary, have taken nature to mean the same as hypostasis and both to mean essence is obvious enough, for three plain reasons: first, he cannot have meant anything so absolutely opposed to the meaning given to the word hypostasis by the Monophysites; secondly, if he meant nature by hypostasis he had no word at all left for The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- [2043] The simpler explanation of the use of the word hypostasis in the passage under discussion is that it has the earlier sense, equivalent to ousia.cf. Athan., NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
- The practical circumstances of this ‘emancipation’ could not be sustained in the hypostasising jargon of meaning.
- Basil is anxious to show that his own view is identical with the Nicene, and does not admit a development and variation in the meaning of the word hypostasis; but on comparing such a passage as that in Athan. c. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works