hypostatic

American  

[hahy-puh-stat-ik] / ˌhaɪ pəˈstæt ɪk /

Also hypostatical

adjective

1. of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.

2. Theology. pertaining to or constituting a distinct personal being or substance.

3. Medicine/Medical. being in a condition of hypostasis.

4. Genetics. (of a nonallelic gene) masked by another gene.

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Other Word Forms

• hypostatically adverb
• nonhypostatic adjective
• nonhypostatical adjective
• nonhypostatically adverb

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

Example Sentences

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

It is likely he will die of hypostatic pneumonia.

From The Guardian

Hyper�mia, oedema, hypostatic congestions, splenization, catarrhal pneumonia, and hepatization affect the lung-tissue in cases fatal by the complications which are associated with such changes.

From Project Gutenberg

Hypostatic congestion and infarction of the lungs are not uncommonly found after death from typhoid fever, and less frequently the lesions of pneumonia.

From Project Gutenberg

The term hypostatic oedema is often used to designate the association of oedema and inflammation, the former caused by the latter, and to indicate the effect of gravitation in the localization of oedema from the general causes already mentioned.

From Project Gutenberg