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How to use hypostasis in a sentence

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Hypostasis means a sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. Example: “Christians believe in a triune God, meaning that he is three hypostases in perfect unity.”

Examples of hypostasis by meaning

nounA sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

  • Thus the kidneys also have their particular excrement which is contained in it and is the hypostasis (deposit).1999, Paracelsus, “Opus Paramirum”, in Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, transl., Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books, page 92

nounThe essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his ‘nature(s)’, human and...

  • 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?1985 September 1, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson & Co., →ISBN
  • 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).2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 218

nounThe underlying reality or substance of something.

  • Rašnu, the "Judge", appears to be the hypostasis of the idea embodied in the common noun rašnu, "judging, one who judges".1975, Mary Boyce, History of Zoroastrianism, volume I, Brill, page 59
  • The One, Intellect and Soul, then, are the three transcendent sources – or hypostases – of existence.1999, John Gregory, editor, The Neoplatonists: A Reader, page 13
  • as far as we know, Porphyry did not consider the divine intellect to be a hypostasis clearly distinct from the Soul, but he often designated it ‘hypercosmic soul’.2006, George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in agreement?, page 320

nounThe effect of one gene preventing another from expressing.

  • When penetrance is suppressed altogether, the term ‘epistasis’ (and ‘hypostasis’ of the suppressed gene) is used.1997, Vogul & Motulsky, Human Genetics: Problems and Approaches, page 141

nounPostmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.

  • I am, of course, excluding the hypostasis produced by his having lain a whole week face downward in the cellar.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

More sentences with hypostasis

  • Christians believe in a triune God, meaning that he is three hypostases in perfect unity.From the entry triune
  • What to say of the other notions (hypostasis) they introduce, exiles (paroikia), reflections (antitypos) and resipiscences (metanoia).2005, Gilles Quispel, “Plotinus and the Jewish Gnōstikoi”, in Johannes van Oort, editor, Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica: Collected Essays of…. From the entry resipiscence
  • Like an attribute, hypostasis presupposes a substance, and like a substance it has attributes.2002, Owen C. Thomas, Ellen K. Wondra, Introduction to Theology, 3rd edition, Morehouse Publishing, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry sonliness
  • The two natures of Christ are two enhypostases but not two hypostases.1997, Joseph P. Farrell, “The Deconstruction of Dialectical Christology”, in God, History, and Dialectic: The Theological Foundations of…. From the entry enhypostasis
  • If hypostasis meant substance, the result would be tritheism.2002, Owen C. Thomas, Ellen K. Wondra, Introduction to Theology, 3rd edition, Morehouse Publishing, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry sonliness
  • Jesus Christ is therefore without a human hypostasis.1998, John Macquarrie, “Two Traditional Ideas Evaluated”, in Christology Revisited, London: SCM Press, published 2003, →ISBN, pages 44–45. From the entry anhypostasia
  • Hasidism, insofar as it was new—and not all of Hasidism was "new" in this sense—rejected the older hierarchies of celestial palaces, of Intelligences, of hypostases, of sefirot.1982, David R. Blumenthal, Understanding Jewish Mysticism, volume II, page 195. From the entry insofar as

Meaning of hypostasis

  1. noun A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.
  2. noun The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his ‘nature(s)’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’).
  3. noun The underlying reality or substance of something.

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Questions about hypostasis in a sentence

How do you use hypostasis in a sentence?
Hypostasis is used as a noun. For example: “Christians believe in a triune God, meaning that he is three hypostases in perfect unity.”
What is a short sentence with hypostasis?
“Jesus Christ is therefore without a human hypostasis.”
What does hypostasis mean?
Hypostasis means a sedimentary deposit, especially in urine.

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