Definition for HY-PO-STAT'IC, or HY-PO-STAT'IC-AL

HY-PO-STAT'IC, or HY-PO-STAT'IC-AL, a.

  1. Relating to hypostasis; constitutive. Let our Carneades warn men not to subscribe to the grand doctrine of the chimists, touching their three hypostatical principles, till they have a little examined it. Boyle.
  2. Personal, or distinctly personal; or constituting a distinct substance. Pearson.

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