coinhere

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ inhere.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Verb

coinhere (third-person singular simple present coinheres, present participle coinhering, simple past and past participle coinhered)

1. (intransitive) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.
   • 1859, William Hamilton, “Lecture XXIII. The Presentative Faculty.—I. Perception,—Was Reid a Natural Realist?”, in H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 78:

     Our knowledge of mind and matter, as substances, is merely relative; they are known to us only in their qualities; and we can justify the postulation of two different substances, exclusively on the supposition of the incompatibility of the double series of phænomena to coinhere in one.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coinhere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)