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单词 hypostasis
释义 hy·pos·ta·sis
\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
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