Hypostasis

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 51

hī-pos′ta-sis, n. a substance: the e ence or real personal subsistence or substance of each of the three divisions of the Godhead.— adjs. Hypostat′ic , -al .— adv. Hypostat′ically .— v.t. Hypos′tatīse . [L.,—Gr. hypostasis — hyphistēmi — hypo , under, histēmi , I make to stand.]