cohere

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COHERE, verb intransitive 1. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass, or as two substances that attract each other. Thus, particles of clay cohere; polished surfaces of bodies cohere 2. To be well connected; to follow regularly in the natural order; to be suited in connection; as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning. 3. To suit; to be fitted; to agree.
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