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hypostatic

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hypostatic /hy·po·stat·ic/ (hi″po-stat´ik)
1. pertaining to, due to, or associated with hypostasis.
2. pertaining to certain inherited traits that are particularly liable to be suppressed by other traits.
hypostatic
[-stat′ik]
Etymology: Gk, hypo + stasis, standing still
pertaining to an accumulation of deposits of substances or congestion in a body area that results from a lack of activity.
hypostatic [hi″po-stat´ik]
1. pertaining to, due to, or associated with hypostasis.
2. pertaining to certain inherited traits that are particularly liable to be suppressed by other traits; see epistasis.
hypostatic
1. pertaining to, due to, or associated with hypostasis.
2. abnormally static; said of certain inherited traits that are liable to be suppressed by other traits.
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But the human words he speaks are, by virtue of the hypostatic union, divine words, and so they enjoy the inherent effectiveness that is proper to the divine word: "Who then is this, who commands even the winds and the sea, and they obey him?
Reading the word Sotto Voce: reading the word of God in the context ... by McManaman, Doug / Catholic Insight
This sort of thing means nothing to us, but it remains relevant to Americans who tend to view "Left" and "Right" not as hypostatic theoretical concepts but as measures of the exact position taken by prominent intellectuals on important issues of the day.
Dreams from his father by Waugh, Alexander / The American Conservative
Given this, if Transcendence, if the hypostatic Ens are human inventions that are to be deconstructed and reduced to a series of disjoined signifying elements, it is also true that our perception and cognition of human/secular space is, in essence, a human construction composed of the shattered ruins of Transcendence and of the theological textuality that sustained it for centuries.
"The theological materials of modernity (On Giorgio Agamben)" by Colilli, Paul / Italica
 
 
 
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