hypostasis

  • 21Hypostasis (Neoplatonism) — The word hypostasis means underlying state or underlying substance. It is the fundamental reality that supports all else. Neoplatonists argue that behind the surface phenomena that present themselves to our senses are three higher spiritual… …

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  • 22hypostasis of Christ — 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 • Syn: ↑hypostasis • Hypernyms: ↑Godhead, ↑Lord, ↑Creator, ↑Maker, ↑Divine, ↑ …

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  • 23hypostasis — noun (plural hypostases) Etymology: Late Latin, substance, sediment, from Greek, support, foundation, substance, sediment, from hyphistasthai to stand under, support, from hypo + histasthai to be standing more at stand Date: 1590 1. a. something… …

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  • 24hypostasis — См. ipòstasi …

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  • 25hypostasis — n. [Gr. hypo, under; stasis, a standing] A non allelic recessive gene, interferred with by an epistatic gene …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 26hypostasis — (Gk., standing under) The underlying subject or substance that supports attributes; matter without form. This is a concept subject to repeated fatal criticism, and repeated resurrection …

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  • 27hypostasis — Synonyms and related words: abstract noun, adherent noun, air, atom, atomic particles, axiom, brute matter, building block, center, chemical element, collective noun, common noun, component, constituent, core, earth, element, elementary particle …

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  • 28hypostasis — hy·pos·ta·sis || haɪ pÉ‘stÉ™sɪs / pÉ’s n. base, foundation, underlying principle; essence or personality of any of the three persons in the Godhead (Theology); accumulation of blood in an organ (Medicine); epistasis (Genetics) …

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  • 29hypostasis — [hʌɪ pɒstəsɪs] noun (plural hypostases si:z) 1》 Medicine the accumulation of fluid or blood in parts of the body or organs, as occurs in cases of poor circulation or after death. 2》 Philosophy an underlying reality or substance. 3》 Theology each… …

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  • 30hypostasis — n. 1. Substance, subsistence. 2. Person, personality. 3. Principle, element …

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