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noun (hypostases)
- (philosophy) Inherent reality or substance.
- (theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity.
- 1985: What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of ? " Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- 2000: 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. " Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God (Harper 2004, p. 69)
- (context, medicine, obsolete) a sedimentary deposit, especially in urine
- (genetics) the effect of one gene preventing another from expressing
Translations: Etymology: From ecclesiastical Latin, hypostasis, from Ancient Greek (polytonic, á) "sediment, foundation" and later "substance, existence, essence", from (polytonic, á) + (polytonic, ) "standing".
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