hypostatical

• HYPHEN: hy=po=stat=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypostatical, 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.