hypostatic

Adjective

(comparative more hypostatic, superlative most hypostatic)

(theology) Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting.
hypostatic congestion, due to setting of blood by gravitation
(medicine) Pertaining to hypostasis.
(genetics) Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.

Origin

From mediaeval Latin hypostaticus, from Ancient Greek ὑποστατικός (hupostatikos), from ὑποστατός (hupostatos).

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Soon afterwards he went to Saumur, where in 1679 were published Liberii de Sancto Amore Epistolae Theologicae (Irenopoli: Typis Philalethianis), usually attributed to him; they deal with the doctrine of the Trinity, the hypostatic union of the two natures in Jesus Christ, original sin, and the like, in a manner sufficiently far removed from that of the conventional orthodoxy of the period.
It is denied that he is non-hypostatic (avvnrbvraroi); it is affirmed that he is en-hypostatic (Eev - ixrTaros).
But the Trinity and the Hypostatic Union are vast speculative constructions reared upon slender biblical data.

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