Hȳ'po-stāt'ie or Hȳp'o-stāt'ie or Hȳ'po-stāt'ie-al or Hȳp'o-stāt'ie-al, a.
a. [Gr. ὑποστατικός, Fr. hypostatique.]
Sense 1. Relating to hypostasis, or substance; hence, constitutive, or elementary.
Let our Carneades warn men not to subscribe to the grand doctrine of the chemists, touching their three hypostatic principles, till they have a little examined it. Boyle.
Sense 2. Personal, or distinctly personal; relating to the divine hypostases, or subsistences. Pearson.