Definition of Inhesion

1. n. The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.

Definition of Inhesion

1. Noun. inherence (act of inhering) ¹

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Definition of Inhesion

1. the state of inhering [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhesion

inheriters
inheriting
inheritor
inheritors
inheritour
inheritress
inheritresses
inheritrices
inheritrix
inheritrixes
inherits
inherse
inhersed
inherses
inhersing
inhesion (current term)
inhesions
inhiation
inhibin
inhibins
inhibit
inhibitable
inhibited
inhibiter
inhibiters
inhibitine
inhibiting
inhibiting antibody
inhibiting hormone
inhibition

Literary usage of Inhesion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lessons in Scholastic Philosophy by Michael Shallo (1916)
"... nor would such accidents lose their true character of accidents—they would always imply a natural need of a subject of inhesion to sustain them, ..."

2. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... a woman that inherits ; an heiress: inhesion, a state of existing in something else. ... inhesion ..."

3. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1881)
"An accident of its very nature connotes a Subject of inhesion ; because it is not ... But it does not essentially connote a Subject of actual inhesion; ..."

4. Body and Mind; a History and a Defence of Animism by William McDougall (1920)
"inhesion in something is supposed to be requisite to support the existence of ... We have therefore no idea of inhesion. What possibility then of answering ..."

5. Southern Presbyterian Review (1858)
"... inhesion; in the other, in connection with its inhesion, or under tin- notion of its inhesion In the subject. We give an example from Turretin and a ..."

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