hypostatically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From hypostatic +‎ -ally.

Adverb[edit]

hypostatically (not comparable)

  1. In a hypostatic manner; in terms of actual substance.
    • 1786, Richard Payne Knight, On the Worship of Priapus, section X:
      In the vision of Ezekiel, God is described as descending upon the combined forms of the eagle, the bull, and the lion, the emblems of the ætherial spirit, the creative and destructive powers, which were all united in the true God, though hypostatically divided in the Syrian trinity.