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Hypostases
Hypostasis Hy*pos"ta*sis, n.; pl. Hypostases. [L., fr. Gr. ? subsistence, substance, fr. ? to stand under; ? under + ? to stand, middle voice of ? to cause to stand. See Hypo-, and Stand.] 1. That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing. 2. (Theol.) 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. Note: The Council of Alexandria (a. d. 362) defined hypostasis as synonymous with person. --Schaff-Herzog. 3. 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. 4. (Med.) That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

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- Hypostasis (plural: hypostases), from the Gr**** ὑπόστασις (hypóstasis), is the underlying, fundamental state or substance that supports all of reality...
- eternal God, who exists as a peric****sis ("mutual indwelling") of three hypostases, or "persons": God the Father; God the Son; and God the Holy Spirit, which...
- Look up hypostasis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hypostasis, hypostases, hypostatic, hypostatization, or hypostatisation (Ancient Gr****: ὑπόστᾰσις...
- in its innumerable aggregate states, is represented by the Apas, the hypostases of the waters. Āb (plural Ābān) is the Middle Persian-language form. "To...
- as three co-eternal, consubstantial, co-immanent, and equally divine hypostases. During the patristic period, Christian theologians attempted to clarify...
- Yazata ****ist Ahura Mazda in his battle against the evil spirit, and are hypostases of moral or physical aspects of creation. The yazatas collectively are...
- the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion). As the Fourth Lateran...
- Orthodox Christians believe in the Trinity, three distinct, divine persons (hypostases), without overlap or modality among them, who each have the same divine...
- principle of meditation, existing as the interrelationship between the hypostases—the soul, the intellect (nous), and the One. Plotinus used a trinity concept...
- [Bessarabiana: The territory between Prut and Dniester in several historical hypostases and historiographical reflections] (in Romanian). Cartdidact. p. 6....