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Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.

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  1. a. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.
  2. a. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
  3. a. Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.
  4. 1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles. Boyle. 2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. Bp. Pearson. 3. (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.
  5. a. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. a. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances. a. Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.