hypostatic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: hy=po=stat=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypostatic, a. [Gr. : cf. F. hypostatique.].

•  Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.  [1913 Webster]

  "The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles."  [1913 Webster]
•  Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.  Bp. Pearson.  [1913 Webster]
•  Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.  [1913 Webster]

Hypostatic union (Theol.), the union of the divine with the human nature of Christ. Tillotson.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hypostatic, adj. (also hypostatical) Theol. relating to the three persons of the Trinity.

Idiom

hypostatic union the divine and human natures in Christ.

ROGET THESAURUS

hypostatic

Substantiality

N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.