The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypostatic \Hy`po*stat"ic\, Hypostatical \Hy`po*stat"ic*al\, a.
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Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.
The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles.
--Boyle. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
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(Med.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.
Hypostatic union (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ.
--Tillotson.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context theology English) Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic%20union. 2 personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. 3 (context medicine English) Pertaining to hypostasis; depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting. 4 (context genetics English) Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hypostatic".
Alia emerged from her Hypostatic Union, Reath brought her away from the claustrophobic antiquity of Earth and back to the comparatively familiar confines of his ship, which patiently followed its slow orbit about the old planet.
The Second Level is a Hypostatic Union with the past, a union of substances beneath external differences, the trivialities of locations in space and time.
A full Hypostatic Union of every soul in past and future with every other, the ultimate logic, would require an infinite effort.
Witnessing and the Hypostatic Union, it tried to bring the suffering of the past into its full awareness, and so to atone.
When Alia emerged from her Hypostatic Union, Reath brought her away from the claustrophobic antiquity of Earth and back to the comparatively familiar confines of his ship, which patiently followed its slow orbit about the old planet.
Through the Witnessing and the Hypostatic Union, it tried to bring the suffering of the past into its full awareness, and so to atone.
Kicks to hypnotize a priest and tell him he is about to consummate a hypostatic union with the Lamb -- then steer a randy old sheep up his ass.
Its window had apparently been broken some time since and very badly mended with glass which must have been dirty when it was made, suggesting a kind of hypostatic union between clearness and dinginess.
The signs of hypostatic lividity, the pooling of blood due to gravity after death, was fixed in the face and neck and abdomen.
Kicks to hypnotize a priest and tell him he is about to consummate a hypostatic union with the Lamb -- then steer a randy old sheep up his ass.