cohæsive

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cohæsive (comparative more cohæsive, superlative most cohæsive)

  1. Obsolete and rare spelling of cohesive
    • 1657, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick; or, The Entire Body of Logick in English. Unfolding to the Meanest Capacity the Way to Dispute Well, and to Refute All Fallacies Whatsoever., 2nd edition, London: [] John Streater, [], page 88:
      Cohæſive Identity, is either of the Subject, or of the Accident.
    • 1659, George Fox, A Primer for the Schollers and Doctors of Europe, but Especially to Them in and about the (Called) Two Famous Universities in England, Oxford and Cambridge, [], London: [] Thomas Simmons [], page 11:
      What is a Canon a Concomitant a Cohæſive, an Hypoſtatical a Cauſal, an Illuſtration, what a definite, an Indefinite, what an Equivalent?
    • 1725, James Sedgwick, “Of many Remedies useful in Fevers, why, and when to be used; particularly Sweating; and when to be avoided. Of Concoction, &c.”, in A New Treatise on Liquors: Wherein the Use and Abuse of Wine, Malt-Drinks, Water, &c. Are Particularly Consider’d, in Many Diseases, Constitutions, and Ages. [], London: [] Charles Rivington, [], page 121:
      If a Fever proceed only from a Plethora, a Fulneſs of Blood or Humours, from their Quantity and Redundancy, from their cohæſive Bulks or Thickneſs: []
    • 1796, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy, 2nd edition, volumes II (Salts, Inflammables, and Metallic Substances), London: [] P. Elmsly, [], page 45:
      COHÆSIVE MINERAL PITCH.
    • 1903 (first published – 1839; second edition – 1845), Philip James Bailey, Festus, page 721:
      [] for, when thine orb, dispersed
      In fiery fragments, lessening more and more
      By self-resolvent forces from all claim
      Cohæsive, robbed my memory of a form
      I once so dearly loved, tears so mine eyes
      Drowned, grief my heart so panged, I fled;