adhere

i. [Lat. adhæreo = to stick to: ad to, and hæreo = to stick; Ital. aderire; Fr. adhérer.] I. Literally : 1. To stick to, as a viscous substance more or le does to anything with which it is brought in contact. 2. To stick to anything, not through the po e ion of glutinous qualities, but by some other physical proce . "Each tooth has its peculiar socket, to which it firmly adheres by the close co-adaptation of their opposed surfaces. -Owen : Cla if. of the Mammal i a, p. 15. II. Figuratively : 11. To cleave to, as a bribe does to the guilty hand which accepts it, or commi ion or other payment for work done left unobjectionably in the hand of the person who executed it. "In this wealth, without reckoning the large portion which adheres to the hands employed in collecting it." J. S. Mill : Polit . Econ, p. là. 2. To remain firmly attached to one's church, political party, or expre ed opinions. "Rochester had till that day adhered firmly to the royal cause."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. x. "These people, probably somewhat under a million in nunber, had, with few exceptions, adhered adhered to the Church of Rome."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. "A hundred and eighty-eight were for adhering to the vote of the eleventh of December."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xxiii. *3. To cohere, to hang together, to be consistent, or agree with. IMG:content-0167.png:[blocks in formation] =to stick to.] A As adjective: I Ordinary Language: 1. Lit .: Sticking to, as a glutinous substance does to anything with which it is brought in contact, or as various non-glutinous bodies do in other ways. [See B. 1.] 2. Fig .: Tenaciously attached to a person, party, or opinion. "If a man be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere, he is also declared guilty of high treason."Black stone: Comment., bk. iv., ch. 6. II. Technically: 1. Botany: [ADHERING.] 2. Logic. Of modes: Improper. "Modes are said to be inherent or adherent ; that is, proper or improper. Adherent or improper modes arise from the joining of some accidental substance to the chief subject, which yet may be separated from it: so, when a bowl is wet, or a boy is clothed, these are adherent modes for the water and the clothes are distinct substances, which adhere to the bowl or to the boy."-Watts: Logick. B. As substantive: 1. Of things : Anything adhering to one in whatever way. "When they cannot shake the main fort, they must try if they can po e se themselves of the outworks; raise some prejudice against his discretion, his humour, his carriage, ze, and his extrinsic extrin adherents."-Dr. H. More: Government of the Tongue. 2. Of persons: One attached to another by veneration, affection, or other close bond, so as to be disposed to follow him as a leader; one attached to a church, a political party, or an opinion, so as to be prepared to make sacrifices on its behalf. "He had consequently a great body of personal adherents."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. ii. ad-her-ent-ly, adv . [ADHERENT.] In an adherent manner; after the fashion of a thing or of a person adherent to another.