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Hypostasis

noun

(pl. hypostases)

The suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene. Synonym: epistasis.

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. Synonym: hypostasis of Christ.

(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality.

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"Hypostasis" Quotes from Famous Books

... itself with it; how being can transform itself into a knowing, becomes conceivable on one only condition; namely, if it can be shown that the vis representativa, or the Sentient, is itself a species of being; that is, either as a property or attribute, or as an hypostasis or self subsistence. The former—that thinking is a property of matter under particular conditions,—is, indeed, the assumption of materialism; a system which could not but be patronized by the philosopher, ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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