The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their
three hypostatical principles. --Boyle.
2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine
hypostases, or substances. --Bp. Pearson.
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. --Tillotson.