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cohere, v.|kəʊˈhɪə(r)|
Also 7–8 cohære.
[ad. L. cohær-ēre to cleave together, f. co- together + hærēre to stick, cleave.]
1. a. intr. To cleave or stick together; esp. said of the constituent parts of a material substance.
1616Bullokar, Cohere, to cleaue, sticke or hang together. 1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. vii. 35 Particles of matter, which by reason of their figures, will not cohære or lye together, but in such an order. 1742H. Baker Microsc. ii. vii. 106 When the Globules of the Blood cohere in Masses too large. 1839G. Bird Nat. Philos. 14 Two freshly-cut surfaces of caoutchouc will, on being pressed together, cohere so tightly that it is scarcely possible to separate them. 1879Rutley Study Rocks ii. 1 The grains simply cohere without any perceptible cement.
b. Said of the substance, mass, or body whose parts so stick together.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sickness, When the Cloud..Coheres in a body without parting. 1864Kinglake Crimea II. 418 The hard mass became fluid. It still cohered.
c. spec. in Bot.: see cohesion and cohering.
1796De Serra in Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 501 In this case, gems never cohere, the abortive one falls.
2. transf. of non-material things, societies, etc.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1340 That natures parmanent and divine, should cohere unto themselves inseparably. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 160 ⁋5 There are others [natures] which immediately cohere whenever they come into the reach of mutual attraction. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) I. ii. ii. 180 Feelings of different orders cohere with one another less strongly than do feelings of the same order. 1865Lecky Ration. II. iv. 71 A complete dissolution of the moral principles by which society coheres.
3. Of persons: To stick together; to unite or remain united in action.
1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 316 No one man so much as cohæring to another. 1670Cotton Espernon ii. vii. 308 By cohering with other persons of condition. 1871Darwin Desc. Man I. v. 162 Selfish and contentious people will not cohere.
4. a. To be congruous in substance, tenor, or general effect; to be consistent.
1598Yong Diana 248 That one [assertion] cohereth but ill with the other. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xiii. (1622) 137 They deny him to haue any knowledge in him, whom yet they acknowledge to bee the most High. Things, that cannot cohere. 1679Shadwell True Widow ii. Wks. 1720 III. 149 That trimming..does not cohere with your complexion at all. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh ii. 1219 To draw my uses to cohere with needs. 1862Trench Mirac. xxxii. 448 Nothing..cohered more intimately with the purpose of his Gospel.
†b. To combine congruously, agree. Obs.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 259 Till each circumstance, Of place, time, fortune, do co-here and iumpe That I am Viola. 1603― Meas. for M. ii. i. 11 Had time coheard with Place, or place with wishing. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 190 Though this Nation disagree in sundry fantasies, yet cohere they in this one.
c. ‘To be well connected; to follow regularly in the order of discourse’ (J.).
1795Burke Thoughts on Scarcity Pref. (T.), They have been inserted, where they best seemed to Cohere.
d. To be coherent, to ‘hang together’ as a composition. ? Obs.
1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 214 The piece does not properly cohere.
†5. To be associated, to remain with. Obs.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 23 The Ile was then governed by a Queene, but the rule coheres at other times with Kings.
6. pass. To be united. rare.
1606Ford Honor Tri. (1843) 29 In a perfect lover..all these three are judicially cohered. 1911Mair Eng. Lit.: Mod. 100 His Essays..were in their origin merely jottings gradually cohered and enlarged into the series we know.
7. trans. To cause to cohere or hold together.
1875R. R. Brash Eccl. Archit. Irel. 152 No cements were used to cohere the material. |
