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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
HYPOSTASIS, HYPOSTASY
n.[L. hypostasis; Gr. to stand. ] Properly, subsistence or substance. Hence it is used to denote distinct substance, or subsistence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in the Godhead, called by the Greek christians, three hypostases. The Latins more generally used persona to express the sense of hypostasis, and this is the modern practice. We say, the Godhead consists of three persons.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
HYPOSTASIS
Hy *pos "ta *sis, n.; pl. Hypostases. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. 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.)
Defn: 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. )
Defn: That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
New American Oxford Dictionary
hypostasis
hy pos ta sis |hīˈpästəsis haɪˈpɑstəsəs | ▶noun ( pl. hypostases |-ˌsēz | ) 1 Medicine the accumulation of fluid or blood in the lower parts of the body or organs under the influence of gravity, as occurs in cases of poor circulation or after death. 2 Philosophy an underlying reality or substance, as opposed to attributes or that which lacks substance. • Theology (in Trinitarian doctrine ) each of the three persons of the Trinity, as contrasted with the unity of the Godhead. • [ in sing. ] Theology the single person of Christ, as contrasted with his dual human and divine nature. ORIGIN early 16th cent. (in theological use ): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hupostasis ‘sediment, ’ later ‘essence, substance, ’ from hupo ‘under ’ + stasis ‘standing. ’
Oxford Dictionary
hypostasis
hypostasis |hʌɪˈpɒstəsɪs | ▶noun ( pl. hypostases |-siːz | ) 1 [ mass noun ] Medicine the accumulation of fluid or blood in the lower parts of the body or organs under the influence of gravity, as occurs in cases of poor circulation or after death. 2 Philosophy an underlying reality or substance, as opposed to attributes or to that which lacks substance. 3 Theology (in Trinitarian doctrine ) each of the three persons of the Trinity, as contrasted with the unity of the Godhead. • [ in sing. ] Theology the single person of Christ, as contrasted with his dual human and divine nature. ORIGIN early 16th cent. (in theological use ): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek hupostasis ‘sediment ’, later ‘essence, substance ’, from hupo ‘under ’ + stasis ‘standing ’.
Duden Dictionary
Hypostasis
Hy po s ta sis , Hy pos ta sis Substantiv, feminin , die |Hypost a sis |die Hypostasis; Genitiv: der Hypostasis, Plural: die Hypostasen Hypostase 5
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