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coinhere en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-lbor. English co- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Latin haereō Latin inhaereōbor. English inhere English coinhere From co- + inhere.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance or as part of one another.
   • 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. a. 1857, 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, published 1859, →OCLC, page 78:

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