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adherent, a. and n.|ædˈhɪərənt|
Also 7 adhærent.
[a. Fr. adhérent, ad. L. adhærent-em pr. pple. of adhærē-re: see adhere.]
A. adj.
1. Sticking fast (to), clinging, attached materially.
1615Sandys Trav. 215 On the South side vpon a rocke, and adherent, stood the castle. 1725Pope Odyssey v. 547 Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung, And stuck adherent. 1857J. G. Wood Com. Obj. Sea Shore 45 It is better that they [porphyra] should be adherent to some stone or shell. 1869Phillips Vesuv. viii. 240 Marked by two bands of adherent incrustation.
2. fig. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. viii. 41 An adjunct is eyther inherent in the subject, or adherent to it. 1651Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 151 A Passion so adhærent to the Nature of man. 1725Watts Logic ii. §4. Wks. 1814 VII. 325 Modes are said to be inherent or adherent..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 cloathed, these are adherent modes. 1825Coleridge Wks. II. 213 The transitoriness adherent to all antithesis; for the identity or the absolute is alone eternal.
†3. Attached in sympathy, or as a companion, partizan, or follower. Const. to. Obs.
c1400Test. Love i. (R.) My seruauntes shoulden..bee adherand to his spouse. 1451in Rymer Foedera (1710) XI. 291 All othir that woll be to Me adherent in this Party. 1548Hall Chron. Ed. IV. an. 3 All persones which were adherent to his aduersaries part. 1602W. Fulbecke First Pt. of Parallele 86 It is treason..to be adherent to the King's enemies.
4. Bot. United to each other, though normally not only distinct but belonging to distinct whorls of the plant or flower; adnate.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 44 The stamens slightly adherent to the base of the petals. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 157 The coat of the latter [Sweet Chestnut] is a perianth, adherent to an inferior ovary.
B. n.
1. One who adheres to a person, party, or system; a partizan, follower, or supporter. Const. of a person, of (to obs.) a thing.
c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1714) 66 His said Kyng had made such End, with him, his Adherents and Fautours, as he desired. 1528More Heresyes iii. Wks. 1557 222/1 Luther and his adherentes holde this heresy, that all holy order is nothing. 1606Holland Suetonius 137 The dependants and adhærents of Seianus. 1758Johnson Idler No. 10 ⁋10 Jack Sneaker is a hearty adherent to the present establishment. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 22 The adherents of Lancaster rallied round a line of bastards, and the adherents of York set up a succession of impostors. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §1. (1875) 4 The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
†2. That which adheres to anything; an attached property or quality. Obs.
1636Healey Epictetus xxxi. 37 All those goods which are peculiar adherents to the nature of man. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 162 Not a true limb..but an adherent, a sore, the gangrene of a limb. |