Hypostasis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HYPOSTASIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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.
• an underlying reality or substance, as opposed to attributes or to that which lacks substance.
• (in Trinitarian doctrine) each of the three persons of the Trinity, as contrasted with the unity of the Godhead.
• the single person of Christ, as contrasted with his dual human and divine nature.
• That which forms the basis of anything; underlying principle; a concept or mental entity conceived or treated as an existing being or thing.
• 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.
• 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.
• That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.
• the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
• the accumulation of blood in an organ
• any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
• (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
• an underlying reality, substance, as opp. to attributes ('accidents') or as distinguished from what is unsubstantial
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something that settles at the bottom of a fluid; the settling of blood in the dependent parts of an organ or body
• an underlying reality, substance, as opp. to attributes (\'accidents\') or as distinguished from what is unsubstantial

Words related to HYPOSTASIS

hypostases18 hypostatic20

Words that contain HYPOSTASIS

hypostasise19 hypostasised21 hypostasises20 hypostasising22 hypostasisation23

How to use HYPOSTASIS in a sentence

• But what this substance, or hypostasis, is, independently of its qualities or actions, we know not.
• Internally, hypostasis must not be mistaken for congestion of the brain or lungs, or the results of inflammation of the intestines.
• If the intestine is pulled straight, inflammatory redness is continuous, hypostasis is disconnected.
• Therefore there is another hypostasis in Him besides the hypostasis of the Word.
• Yet as it is in union with something more complete, it is not said to be a hypostasis, as a hand or a foot.
• For from the union of soul and body in us a person or a human hypostasis is caused.
• Hence if the soul and body were united in Christ, it follows that a hypostasis resulted from their union.
• But this was not the hypostasis of God the Word, for It is eternal.
• Hence Nestorius held that the human nature was assumed by the Word merely as an instrument, and not into the unity of the hypostasis.
• But the end of the union is the Divine hypostasis or Person in which the union is terminated.
• Therefore it seems that this union ought chiefly to be judged with reference to the dignity of the Divine hypostasis, which is not anything created.
• But the body pertains immediately to the human hypostasis or person, even as the soul.
• First, for this proposition is simply false, in the judgment of the Catholic Faith, which affirms that in Christ there is one suppositum and one hypostasis, as also one Person.
• But every hypostasis and suppositum and being of human nature is a person.
• Hence, as human nature is not of itself a person apart from the Person of the Son of God, so likewise it is not of itself a hypostasis or suppositum or a being of nature.
• Hence it has unity from the unity of hypostasis, rather than duality from the duality of the nature.
• Nevertheless action is attributed to the nature as to that whereby the person or hypostasis acts.
• Hence, although the nature is not properly said to rule or serve, yet every hypostasis or person may be properly said to be ruling or serving in this or that nature.
• Secondly, it may be understood of the diversity of natures in the one person or hypostasis.
• Now in Christ there is no other than the uncreated person or hypostasis, to Whom it belongs by nature to be the Son.
• Consequently, nativity is attributed to the person or hypostasis as to the proper subject of being born, but not to the nature.
• Now, conception and birth are attributed to the person and hypostasis in respect of that nature in which it is conceived and born.
• Wherefore the one hypostasis of the Word was the hypostasis of the Word, of the soul, and of the body.
• It becomes the sign for an essence or idea, a logical hypostasis corresponding in discourse to that material hypostasis of perceptions which is called an external thing.

Similar words containing HYPOSTASI without suffix s

hypostasise19 hypostasize28 enhypostasia20 hypostasised21 hypostasises20 hypostasized30 hypostasizes29 enhypostasias21 hypostasising22 hypostasizing31 hypostasisation23 hypostasization32

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