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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 |