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Hypostasis
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.
Hypostasize
Hypostasize Hy*pos"ta*size, v. t. To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.] The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. --Coleridge.

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- Look up hypostasis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hypostasis, hypostases, hypostatic, hypostatization, or hypostatisation (Ancient Gr****: ὑπόστᾰσις...
- The Hypostasis of the Archons, also called The Reality of the Rulers or The Nature of the Rulers, is a Gnostic writing. The only known surviving m****cript...
- Hypostasis (plural: hypostases), from the Gr**** ὑπόστασις (hypóstasis), is the underlying, fundamental state or substance that supports all of reality...
- In linguistics, a hypostasis (from the Gr**** word ὑπόστασις meaning foundation, base or that which stands behind) is a relationship between a name and...
- Hypostatic union (from the Gr****: ὑπόστασις hypóstasis, 'person, subsistence') is a technical term in Christian theology emplo**** in mainstream Christology...
- Hypostasis (from Gr**** hypo- "below" + stasis "standing") is the essence of metafiction, a rare, literary moment when characters in fiction become aware...
- Latin post mortem 'after death' and lividitas 'black and blueness'), hypostasis (from Gr**** ὑπό (hypo) 'under, beneath' and στάσις (stasis) 'a standing')...
- doctrine concerning the union of two natures (divine and human) in one hypostasis of Jesus Christ, who is thus acknowledged as a single person (prosopon)...
- theology, Sabellianism is the belief that there is only one Person ('hypostasis' in the Gr**** language of the fourth century Arian Controversy) in the...
- are three gods (the antitrinitarian heresy of Tritheism), nor that each hypostasis of the Trinity is one-third of an infinite God (partialism), nor that...