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Hypostatical, Hypostatic adj.

Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. "The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles."

Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Hypostatical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hypostatical" Quotes from Famous Books

... race, or the benefits of the death of Jesus Christ, can have no more to do with the habitability of the moon, than the doctrine of the Trinity has to do with the multiplication table and the rule of three, or the hypostatical union with the chemical composition of water and light. Having said thus much of compulsion, we return, not as ministers in the temple of religion so much as students in the school of science, to consider with docility the question in ...

— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... fourteenth century, the disputes between the Nominalists and the Realists, in which he took the part of the former, the principle that "entities are not to be multiplied except by necessity," or the "hypostatic existence of abstractions," have ceased to create any very keen interest in the minds of readers. But how bitterly the war of words was waged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries! And it was not ...

— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield