hypostatic

[ hahy-puh-stat-ik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
2. Theology. pertaining to or constituting a distinct personal being or substance.
3. Medicine/Medical. being in a condition of hypostasis.
4. Genetics. (of a nonallelic gene) masked by another gene.

Other Words From

• hy·po·stat·i·cal·ly adverb
• non·hy·po·stat·ic adjective
• non·hy·po·stat·i·cal adjective
• non·hy·po·stat·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypostatic¹

1670–80; < Greek hypostatikós pertaining to substance, equivalent to hypostat ( ós ) placed under, giving support ( hypo- hypo- + sta- stand + -tos verbal adjective suffix) + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

What happens to this notion of goodness and purity when the common and the royal come together in a single person, in a Burke's Peerage version of the hypostatic union?

From Time

It is likely he will die of hypostatic pneumonia.

From The Guardian

Other morbid conditions of the respiratory organs which may occur as complications of typhoid fever are oedema, infarction, hypostatic congestion of the lungs, emphysema, and pneumothorax.

From Project Gutenberg

On the other hand, the advocates of this plan of treatment contend that the existence of pneumonia or of hypostatic congestion of the lungs is not a sufficient reason for abandoning it, the congestion often disappearing under its use.

From Project Gutenberg

The term hypostatic oedema is often used to designate the association of oedema and inflammation, the former caused by the latter, and to indicate the effect of gravitation in the localization of oedema from the general causes already mentioned.

From Project Gutenberg