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

(Would number then precede the essences) only in thought and conception, or also in the hypostatic existence?

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The first and veritable Number is therefore the source and principle21 of hypostatic existence for beings.

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If the man be defined as being the composite of the reasonable soul and the body, how can he be an immortal hypostatic existence?

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No, it has not even reached there, inasmuch as all that is after the First achieved (hypostatic) existence on His account.

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By such individual beings is here meant having in one's own being the cause of his hypostatic existence.

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