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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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... the preaching of the Gospel under the guise of Christianity. For if a man calls Father, Son, and Holy Spirit one, but manifold as to person [prosopon], and makes one hypostasis of the three, what else does he do than deny the everlasting pre-existence of the ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

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