hypostatical, a.
(hɪpəʊ-, haɪpəʊˈstætɪkəl)
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. = hypostatic 1.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 154 He being the Word..did by hypostatical vnion take vpon hym the nature of man. 1616 Bullokar Eng. Expos., Hypostaticall, belonging to substance; or that which consisteth in the substance of a thing. 1620 T. Granger Div. Logike 310 To the singular number (Jehovah) his essentiall name, noting the unity..is added the plurall (Elohim) his hypostaticall, or subsistentiall name, noting the Trinity. 1656 Hobbes Answ. Bp. Bramhall 434 (R.) But the word hypostatical..is properly used, as I have said before, of the union of the two natures of Christ in one person. 1674 Hickman Quinquart. Hist. Ep. (ed. 2) A iij b, I believe the Hypostatical Union, a Trinity of persons in the Unity of Essence. 1852 Hook Ch. Dict. (1871) 377 The hypostatical union is the union of the human nature of our Lord with the divine, constituting two natures in one person. |
† 2. Of or pertaining to the essential principles or elements of bodies; elemental. Obs.
| 1661–80 Boyle Scept. Chym. i. 80 They do not pretend by fire alone to separate out of all compound Bodies their Hypostatical Principles. 1676 ― Hist. Colours Exp. xv, Divers learned men, having adopted the three hypostaticall principles. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hypostatical Principles, a Title given by Paracelsus and his Followers to the three Chymical Principles, viz. Salt, Sulphur and Mercury. |
Hence hypoˈstatically adv., in a hypostatic manner; in actual substance or personality.
| 1593 T. Bell Motives conc. Rom. Faith (1605) 118 [He] affirmeth the substance of bread to be united to the body of Christ hipostatically. 1614 T. Adams Devil's Banq. 123 God..is hypostatically in Christ: graciously in his Saints: gloriously in Heauen: powerfully in Hell. 1681–6 J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 41 Our Ransom from eternal Punishment being paid with the Blood of one of our kind, hypostatically united to God. 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 154 After a Soul is Hypostatically, that is, Personally united to a Body, their separation is call'd Death. 1883 Catholic Dict. (1885) 428/2 Sin was a physical impossibility in the human soul of Christ, because it was hypostatically united to the Divinity. |