HYPOSTASIS


Meaning of HYPOSTASIS in English

hīˈpästəsə̇s noun

( plural hyposta·ses -əˌsēz)

Etymology: Late Latin, substance, sediment, from Greek, support, sediment, foundation, substance, from hyphistasthai to support, stand under, from hypo- + histasthai to stand, middle of histanai to cause to stand — more at stand

1.

a. : something that settles at the bottom of a fluid : sediment , deposit

b. : the settling of blood in the dependent parts of an organ or body

2.

a. in the original Nicene use : the essence or substance of the triune Godhead — called also ousia

b. in later use

(1) : one of the persons of the Godhead or Trinity

(2) : the individual as subject or substance

c. : the whole personality of Christ as distinguished from his human and divine natures

3. obsolete : basis of support : foundation

4. philosophy

a. Plotinism : any of the three aspects or essential principles constituting the Godhead:

(1) : the transcendent one

(2) : nous , spirit

(3) : logos , world soul

b. Thomism : the substance or rational nature of an individual or person ; also : person , individual

c. : substance as an ontological entity or category : a self-subsistent reality or mode of being

d. : a hypothetical or conceptual entity : a reified abstraction : hypostatization

as far as the Buddhist hypostasis of the law is concerned, we should search in vain for a Christian equivalent — Joachim Wach

for legal purposes a right is only the hypostasis of a prophecy — Alfred Lief

5.

[New Latin, from Late Latin]

: failure of a gene to produce its usual effect when coupled with another gene that is epistatic toward it

6.

[New Latin, from Late Latin]

: hypostase

7.

a. : the mention of a word, grammatical form, or word group (as in, un-, in the dark ) as a linguistic element

b. : a linguistic element so referred to — called also citation form, quotation noun

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.