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What does hypostatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (theology) Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
  2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or substances.
  3. (medicine) Pertaining to hypostasis; depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting.
  4. (genetics) Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.
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But to make the nature of the hypostatic union more intelligible to the reader, we shall dwell upon it a little longer.
Nothing better describes the mystery of hypostatic union which is instinct in the Incarnation.
Now, the church answers the problem by laying down the first moment of the external action of God, the hypostatic moment.
The lung in hypostatic pneumonia, even when it is inflated, still feels firmer between the fingers than normal lung.
For, in the first place, the very nature of the hypostatic moment makes him such.
From all we have said we may form quite an accurate idea of what the hypostatic union really means.

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