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Hypostatical   Listen
adjective
Hypostatical, Hypostatic  adj.  
1.
Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary. "The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles."
2.
Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
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.





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"Hypostatical" Quotes from Famous Books



... think of the historical ink-spot at Wartburg! Moreover, our Christian art, in many thousands of paintings and other representations, has exhibited Satan in corporeal form just as realistically as it has the three "Divine Persons," about whose "hypostatical union" human reason has for eighteen hundred years been tormenting itself in vain. The deep impression made by such concrete representations, a million times repeated, especially on childish understandings, is usually under-estimated as to its tremendous ...
— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel


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