{ Hy`po*stat"ic (?), Hy`po*stat"ic*al (?), }
a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. hypostatique.]
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.