cohæsive

English

Adjective

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;