hypostatic

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  1. Relating to hypostasis; constitutive or elementary. The hypostatic principles are salt, sulphur, and mercury. See hypostasis, 5. Of late, divers learned men, having adopted the three hypostaticall principles, are very inclinable to reduce all qualities or bodies to one or other of those three principles; and particularly assign for the cause of blackness the sooty steam of a dust or torrified sulphur. Boyle, Hist. Colours, Experiment xv.
  2. In theology, personal, or distinctly personal; pertaining to or constituting a distinct being or substance. See hypostasis, 2. Christians who … opposed the doctrine of a hypostatic Logos, … or of an independent personal subsistence of the Divine Word. Encyc. Brit., XVI. 719.
  3. In medicine, arising from downward pressure; caused by dependence: as, hypostatic congestion.
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  • "Because He has anointed Me": this is a reference to the anointing Jesus received at the moment of His Incarnation, principally through the grace of the hypostatic union. —  †Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam†
  • From this hypostatic union the fullness of all graces derives. —  †Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam†
  • It is a merit that, if not formally infinite, is nevertheless quasi-infinite in virtue of the hypostatic union of the divine Person of the Word (who is infinite) and His assumed human nature (which is finite). —  Latest Articles
  • The merit "de condigno" (relative) is connected precisely to the essential fact of Mary's belonging, by reason of Her divine maternity and Her Immaculate Conception (with Her "Fullness of grace" - Lk 1: 28), to the order of the hypostatic union, which elevates Her in dignity above all other angelic and human creatures. —  Latest Articles
  • What was his understanding of the hypostatic union? —  Biblical Christianity
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  1. from Greek ὑποστατικός, belonging to substance, from ὑπόστατος, substantially existing: see hypostasis.
 

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