adherencyt (adherensi)

[As adherence: see-ency.] 1. The state of being adherent. Adherencies and admirations of men's persons. Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 172. 2. That which is adherent. Vices have a native adherency of vexation. Decay of Christ, Piety. adherent (ad-her'ent), a . and n. [ ad hérent , adhæren (t-)s, ppr. of adhærere : see adhere.] I. a. 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung, And stuck adherent , and suspended hung. Pope , Ody ey, 1. 547. 2. In bot., congenitally united, as parts that are normally separate: generally used as equivalent to adnate. See cut under adnate.-3. In logic and metaph., accidentally connected; not belonging to the nature of a thing; not inherent: as, if a cloth is wet, its wetne is a quality adherent to it, not inherent in it. II. n. 1. A person who adheres; one who follows or upholds a leader, party, cause, opinion, or the like; a follower, partizan, or supporter. Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much hen-pecked as his master. Irving , Rip Van Winkle. IMG:content-0258.png:[blocks in formation] lar kind of inflammation, called the adhesive. 9. In mech., often used as synonymous with fric tion (which see). - Adhesion-car, a railroad-car provided with means for increasing the adhesive or tractive power beyond that due merely to the weight imposed gripped horizontally by a pair of friction-wheels placed on upon the rails. This is usually effected by a center rail, its opposite sides, or by a cogged wheel working into a rack laid parallel with the road-bed. In some cases the treads of the driving-wheels are grooved, and the face of the rails is flanged to correspond to them. - Adhesion of wheels to rails, the friction between the surfaces in contact, acting to prevent slipping, in amount dependent upon the condition of those surfaces and the pre ure. For driving-wheels, as of locomotives, it is a fraction of the weight borne by them, ranging from about one twentieth when the rails are "greasy" to one fifth when they are clean and dry.=Syn. Adhesion, Adherence. See adher adhesive (ad-he's iv), a. [F. adhésif, -ive, IMG:content-0259.png:[blocks in formation] minem, acc. of homo, man: see Homo. ] To the man; to the interests or pa ions of the person. -Argumentum ad hominem, an argument drawn from premises which, whether true or not, ought to be admitted by the person to whom they are addre ed, either on account of his peculiar beliefs or experience, or because they are nece ary to justify his conduct or are otherwise conducive to his interest. Aristotle (Topics, viii. 11) remarks that it is sometimes nece ary to refute the disputant rather than his position, and some medieval logicians taught that refutation was of two kinds, solutio recta and solutio ad hom i nem, the latter being imperfect or fallacious refutation. Thus, Blundeville says: "Confutation of person is done either by taunting, rayling, rendring checke for checke, or by scorning"; and Wilson says: "Either wee purpose by dis put a cion to aunswere fully to the matier or els secondly (if power want to compa that) we seke some other meanes to satisfy the man.' My design being not a particular victory over such a sort of men, but an absolute establishing of the truth, I shall lay down no grounds that are merely argumenta ad hominem, Dr. H. More, Immortal. of Soul, ii. 1.