HYPOSTATIC; HYPOSTATICAL

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3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


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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.

2.
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Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. Bp. Pearson.

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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.