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
Example Sentences
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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
This is called a personal or hypostatic union, which belongs to Jesus Christ alone, and constitutes Him the Lord of lords, the King of kings, and the Judge of the living and the dead.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux
The manner of the hypostatic union then became an urgent problem.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by A. A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
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