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Inhere  v. i.  (past & past part. inhered; pres. part. inhering)  To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed in or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities. "They do but inhere in the subject that supports them."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Inhere" Quotes from Famous Books



... during this century, and more especially during the last five-and-twenty years, will tolerate the reintroduction of the soul as something apart from the substratum in which both feeling and action must be held to inhere. The notion of matter being ever changed except by other matter in another state is so shocking to the intellectual conscience that it may be dismissed without discussion; yet if bathybius had not been promptly dealt with, it must have ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler

... one of which was brought alive and sold on board. Jobie, however, is a very dangerous place, and sailors are often murdered there when on shore; sometimes the vessels themselves being attacked. Wandammen, on the mainland opposite Jobie, inhere there are said to be plenty of birds, is even worse, and at either of these places my life would not have been worth a week's purchase had I ventured to live alone and unprotected as at Dorey. On board the steamer they had a pair of tree kangaroos alive. They differ chiefly from the ground-kangaroo ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... seen thus to inhere already in the nature itself of the task proposed for accomplishment, was gravely increased by the much more severe compression deemed to be in the present instance desirable. The room placed at the author's disposal for a display of French literature was less than half the room allowed him ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson



Words linked to "Inhere" :   belong to, inherent, belong, inhere in



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