adherent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADHE'RENT, adjective Sticking, uniting, as glue or wax; united with, as an adherent mode in Locke, that is, a mode accidentally joined with an object, as wetness in a cloth. ADHE'RENT, noun The person who adheres; one who follows a leader, party or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church. In the sense of appendage. obsolete
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