coinhere

C3O1I1N1H4E1R1E1

verb

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance or as part of one another.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbcoinhere (third-person singular simple present coinheres, present participle coinhering, simple past and past participle coinhered)

present singular third person coinheres · participle present coinhering · participle past coinhered · past coinhered

  1. intransitiveTo inhere or exist together, as in one substance or as part of one another.

    Our knowledge of mind and matter, as substances, is merely relative; they are known to us only in their qualities; and we can justify the postulation of two different substances, exclusively on the supposition of the incompatibility of the double series of phænomena to coinhere in one.

    a. 1857, William Hamilton, “Lecture XXIII. The Presentative Faculty.—I. Perception,—Was Reid a Natural Realist?”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, page 78

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinco-
  7. Englishco-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  9. Proto-Italic*en
  10. Proto-Italic*en-
  11. Latinin-
  12. Latinhaereō
  13. Latininhaereō
  14. Englishinhere
  15. Englishcoinhere

From co- + inhere.

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Chicago

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