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/haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/ · noun
(medicine, archaic) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine..
Phi[sitian]. I view’d your vrine, and the Hipoſtates ^([sic – meaning Hipoſtaſis]) / Thick and obſcure doth make your danger great, […]
Thus the kidneys also have their particular excrement which is contained in it and is the hypostasis (deposit).
the hypostases of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis?
As Gregory of Nyssa had explained, the three hypostases of Father, Son, and Spirit were not objective facts but simply “terms that we use” to express the way in which the “unnameable and unspeakable” divine nature (ousia) adapts itself to the limitations of our human minds.
As a result of this verbal pact, the Trinity consists of three equal hypostaseis in one ousia: three equal Persons (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) sharing one Essence or Substance (Trinity or Godhead).
Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges".
The One, Intellect and Soul, then, are the three transcendent sources – or hypostases – of existence.
Use hypostasis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hypostasis means (medicine, archaic) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine..
Common synonyms include subsistence, epistasis.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Phi[sitian]. I view’d your vrine, and the Hipoſtates ^([sic – meaning Hipoſtaſis]) / Thick and obſcure doth make your danger great, […]
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