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.
© Webster 1913.