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Subsist vs Enhypostasia - What's the difference?

subsist | enhypostasia |

As a verb subsist

is to survive on a minimum of resources.

As a noun enhypostasia is

something which subsists in another personality or partakes of another hypostasis.

subsist

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To survive on a minimum of resources.
  • * Atterbury
    • to subsist on other men's charity
  • (mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
  • To continue; to retain a certain state.
  • * Milton
    • Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "subsist")

    Related terms

    * subsistence * subsistent

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    enhypostasia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Something which subsists in another personality or partakes of another hypostasis.
  • * 1997 , Schaff, Philip, History of the Christian Church'', (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.), based on the 1910 edition from Charles Scribner's Sons, Volume IV, chapter 14, ยง144. ''John of Damascus
    • "The Logos was bound to the flesh through the Spirit, which stands between the purely divine and the materiality of the flesh. The human nature of Jesus was incorporated in the one divine personality of the Logos (Enhypostasia )."

    Antonyms

    * anhypostasia