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Cohere v. i. (past & past part. cohered; pres. part. cohering)

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass. "Neither knows he... how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together."

To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. "They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere."

To suit; to agree; to fit. (Obs.) "Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing."

Synonyms: To cleave; unite; adhere; stick; suit; agree; fit; be consistent.

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"Cohere" Quotes from Famous Books

... not,) such is the levity of those who have expelled everything respectable in their country, such their ferocity, their arrogance, their mutinous spirit, their habits of defying everything human and divine, that no engagement would hold with them for three months; nor, indeed, could they cohere together for any purpose of civilized society, if left as they now are. There must be a means, not only of breaking their strength within themselves, but of civilizing them; and these two things must go together, before we can possibly treat with ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... around us a faith in poetry struggles to be extricated, but it is not extricated. Some day, at the touch of the true word, the whole confusion will by magic cease; the broken and shapeless notions cohere and crystallize into a bright and true theory. ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... are no longer bound together by ideas, but by interests; and it would seem as if human opinions were reduced to a sort of intellectual dust, scattered on every side, unable to collect, unable to cohere. ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... of filings through which the electric current is made to pass in wireless telegraphy is called a coherer signifying that the filings cohere or cling together under the influence of the electric waves. Almost any metal will do for the filings but it is found that a combination of ninety per cent. nickel and ten per cent. silver answers ...

— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

... purely personal wishes for the purpose of social solidarity. Thus it comes about that a barbarous community can number thousands, while a tribe of savages with a higher degree of individualism and less altruism cannot cohere if it comprises more than ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

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