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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

... sufficient strength of sight to engage in an occupation which would be congenial to her feelings, and conduce to her removal from this lonely dwelling among the hills? That dream of beautiful Paris was not likely to cohere into substance in the presence of this misfortune. As day after day passed by, and he got no better, her mind ran more and more in this mournful groove, and she would go away from him into the garden and weep ...

— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy

... other they join themselves together;{1} and in consequence those in whom truths and goods are thus joined in accordance with a form of heaven see things following one another in series, and how they cohere widely round about; but those in whom goods and truths are not conjoined in accordance with the form of heaven do not ...

— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg

... gladly sung, Fair to old and foul to young; Scorn not thou the love of parts, And the articles of arts. Grandeur of the perfect sphere Thanks the atoms that cohere. ...

— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... the air will shrink or diminish and the side which is kept damp will not dry. And the dry portion will break away readily from the damp portion because the damp part not shrinking in the same proportion does not cohere and follow the movement of the ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

... and spreading itself, travels so far and wide that it can find no end, no extremity to stop at. In this immensity of breadth, length, and height, a most boundless company of innumerable atoms are fluttering about, which, notwithstanding the interposition of a void space, meet and cohere, and continue clinging to one another; and by this union these modifications and forms of things arise, which, in your opinions, could not possibly be made without the help of bellows and anvils. Thus you have imposed on us an eternal master, whom we must dread day and night. For who can be ...

— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... care and ingenuity. A handful of the cocons are thrown away into a kettle of boiling water, which not only kills the animal, but dissolves the glutinous substance by which the fine filaments of the silk cohere or stick together, so that they are easily wound off, without breaking. Six or seven of these small filaments being joined together are passed over a kind of twisting iron, and fixed to the wheel, which one girl ...

— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett

Words linked to "Cohere" : stick to, adhere, hold fast, meet, bond, adjoin, attach, bind, be, change, cleave, cling, coherent, cohesive, touch