coherent

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COHERENT, adjective 1. Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies, solid or fluid. 2. Connected; united, by some relation in form or order; followed by to, but rather by with. 3. Suitable or suited; regularly adapted. 4. Consistent; having a due agreement of parts; as a coherent discourse. Or observing due agreement; as a coherent thinker or reasoner.
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