cohære

A form of cohere — To stick together physically, by adhesion.

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Meanings

verbcohære (third-person singular simple present cohæres, present participle cohæring, simple past and past participle cohæred)

present singular third person cohæres · participle present cohæring · participle past cohæred · past cohæred

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of cohere.

    That all bodies both Animal, Vegetable, and Inanimate, are form’d out of such particles of matter, which by reason of their figures, will not cohære or lie…

    1930, Richard F. Jones, Science and English Prose Style in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century, volume 45, № 4, December, pp977–1,009
    1 more example

    …and aggregation of matter exist in the Sun, in the Moon, in the planets, in the fixed stars, in fine in all those round bodies whose parts cohære together and…

    1983, Gad Freudenthal, Theory of Matter and Cosmology in William Gilbert’s De magnete, volume 74, № 1, March, pp22–37
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