The word "hypostasis" does not apply to God as regards its source of origin, since He does not underlie accidents; but it applies to Him in its objective sense, for it is imposed to signify the subsistence.
Hence it is plain that nothing false can ever underliethe literal sense of Holy Writ.
It is bold--and would be audacious if a prayer did not underlie the statement--to undertake to determine when evil has reached such height as to demand God's punitive action.
Aspiration after clearer and closer knowledge and experience of God should ever underlie glad pealing forth of His name.
This scientific regulation of belief only fails where the experiences which underlie the conceptions are individual, variable, and subjective.
The effect of his analysis is that the principles, whatever they may be, which might be supposed to underlie association appear to be products of association.
Sacred groves were still used in Gallo-Roman times, and the Druids may have had a preference for them, a preference which may underlie the words of the scholiast on Lucan, that "the Druids worship the gods without temples in woods.
Such a myth mingled with Christian beliefs may underlie the prophecy of Badb after Mag-tured regarding the evils to come and the end of the world, and that of Fercertne in the Colloquy of the Two Sages.
Place-names also point to a cult of the swine, and a recollection of its divinity may underlie the numerous Irish tales of magical swine.
A similar idea may underlie the tale of Fionn and Mongan.
The same laws and forces which caused the development of one group of forms must underlie the development of the whole organic world.
It would be a mistake to conclude that because some of the theories advanced are very plausible, we have, therefore, reached definite truth with regard to the mechanics of the brain that underlie suggestion and mental influence.
As a rhinologist he insists on the nasal conditions that underlie the affection yet suggests that the nasal hyperemia may be due to reflexes of one kind or another.
Certain directions are helpful and by occupying the patient's mind will overcome certain physical factors that underlie the affection.
Out of these have been made all the data supposed to underlie the teaching that dreams have a prophetic significance.
The theoretical considerations which underlie the controversy between the supporters and the opponents of bimetallism find their appropriate place in the article MONEY, as does also the earlier history of the double standard.
The same divine forces underlie the growth of both, but leaf and flower and fruit must follow the law of race, of soil, of climate.
How many, like him, have thought they were preaching a new gospel, when they were only reaffirming the principles which underlie the Magna Charta of humanity, and are common to the noblest utterances of all the nobler creeds!
And the convictions that underlie them are calculated, one would say, to lead at once to a buoyant faith in progress.
But one part of its region, and of the romantic spirit, so incessantly recurs in Browning that it may be said tounderlie the whole of his work.
These things underlie all the poems in Ferishtah's Fancies and the Parleyings with Certain People, and give to them the uplifted, noble trumpet note with which at times they are animated.
I am trying to formulate the ideal of life that seems to me to underlie all the higher religions.
The great coal-field on the south is a perfect example of a synclinal basin, the Millstone Grit and Carboniferous Limestone which underlie the Coal Measures appearing all round the margin.
Does not an unwillingness to accept the true divinity of our Lord underlie this passage?
The advocates of proportional delegation have failed to grasp the importance of the principles of organization and leadership, which underlie representation.
These rights underlie all efforts of people to improve their financial condition.
They underlie all efforts for the improvement of the social condition of the people.
For Jurisprudence studies the principles that underlielegal enactments, and if there were no higher law, there would be no such principles; then the knowledge of the human law would fill the whole programme.
The occasion offered an opportunity to study the impulses which underlie popular patronage.
For the players were all burghers of Ayr and feared that they should underlie the angers of the Earl and of the King, if they gave not ready help when this slaughter was done, as it were, at their very gates.
One night I observed James Mure leading him rudely by the neck into one of the barred cells which underlie the stables.
And as for those that have falsely accused him, let the men underlie my will in the prison most convenient, and the women be warded meantime in their own house and castle, till I cause to be known my whole pleasure in the matter.
It is evident that certain ideals of teaching composition underlie the scheme.
This which I think and feel underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present and will always all circumstances, and what is called life and what is called death.
Before the student leaves the secondary school, however, he should be able for himself to make in a general way an application of the principles which underlie literary distinctions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underlie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
