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What does hypostasis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. [from 14th c.]
  2. (theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (comprising a single ‘essence’). [from 16th c.]
  3. (philosophy) The underlying reality or substance of something. [from 17th c.]
  4. (genetics) The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. [from 20th c.]
  5. Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation.
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This then he did by adding as third hypostasis the Aristotelian dynamic energy.
Their closeness to God is such that he could bind himself with this nature to a hypostasis and so himself give honor to this mortal flesh.
As an aesthetic criterion of evaluation, this requirement ties the success or failure of the object to a form of hypostasis.
He has, therefore, no hypostasis of himself but only in and through the Logos.
Adequate doctrine must put essence and hypostasis on the same level of reality and importance.
It is his divine hypostasis itself that thus shares in death, for it is the hypostasis of his human nature indissolubly united with the divine.

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