Hy*pos"ta*size (?), v. t. To make into a distinct substance; to
conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.]
The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of
gravitation into an ether.
Coleridge.
{ Hy`po*stat"ic (?), Hy`po*stat"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F.
hypostatique.] 1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence,
constitutive, or elementary.
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.
Hy`po*stat"ic*al*ly, adv. In a hypostatic manner.
Hy*pos"ta*tize (?), v. t. 1. To make into, or regarded as, a separate
and distinct substance.
Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.
Pop. Sci. Monthly.