coinhere
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Verb
coinhere (third-person singular simple present coinheres, present participle coinhering, simple past and past participle coinhered)
- (intransitive) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance or as part of one another.
- 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.
References
- “coinhere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.