The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cohere \Co*here"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cohered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cohering.] [L. cohaerere, cohaesum; co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See Aghast, a.]
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To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together.
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To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere.
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To suit; to agree; to fit. [Obs.]
Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing.
--Shak.Syn: To cleave; unite; adhere; stick; suit; agree; fit; be consistent.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cohere English)
Usage examples of "cohering".
In this way therefore then the light and expansive ether with its now cohering body swept round and arched itself on all sides and expanding widely in all directions round in this way fenced all other things in with its greedy grasp.
The old woman was the nucleus the others were gradually cohering around.
Whichever was true, he felt insignificant in the presence of these cohering shapes.
Intangible individually, in the mass they formed something through which I could not pass, cohering by a means I didn't understand.