distillate vs hypostasis

distillate

noun
  • The essence of something. 

  • The liquid that has been condensed from vapour during distillation; normally a purified form or a fraction of an original liquid. 

  • Diesel fuel. 

hypostasis

noun
  • The underlying reality or substance of something. 

  • The effect of one gene preventing another from expressing. 

  • A relationship between a name and a known quantity, as a cultural personification (i.e. objectification with personality) of an entity or quality. 

  • 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 (sharing a single ‘essence’). 

  • Postmortem lividity; livor mortis; suggillation. 

  • A sedimentary deposit, especially in urine. 

  • Referring to the hypostatic model of personality; i.e., asserting that humans present themselves in many different aspects or hypostases, depending on the internal and external realities they relate to, including different approaches to the study of personality. 

How often have the words distillate and hypostasis occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )