hypostatic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
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Theology. pertaining to or constituting a distinct personal being or substance.
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Medicine/Medical. being in a condition of hypostasis.
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Genetics. (of a nonallelic gene) masked by another gene.
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Etymology
Origin of hypostatic
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
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The alleles that are being masked or silenced are said to be hypostatic to the epistatic alleles that are doing the masking.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Three offspring are yellow because Y is hypostatic to w.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
What happens to this notion of goodness and purity when the common and the royal come together in a single person, in a Burke's Peerage version of the hypostatic union?
From Time ● Jul. 25, 2013
It is the nature of the Good to impart itself, and so the highest Good must be "summe diffusivum sui," which can only be in hypostatic union.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
Once on his back in bed he becomes weak, and the danger of edema of the lungs or hypostatic congestion of the bases, with subsequent bronchopneumonia, is very great.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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