adherentadj.n.

Brit.

/ədˈhɪərənt/,

/ədˈhɪərn̩t/,

/adˈhɪərənt/,

/adˈhɪərn̩t/, U.S.

/ædˈhɪrənt/,

/ædˈhɛrənt/,

/ədˈhɪrənt/,

/ədˈhɛrənt/

Forms: late Middle English aderent, late Middle English adherant, late Middle English– adherent, 1500s adheirant (Scottish), 1500s adherande (in print of lost Middle English MS), 1500s adherente, 1600s adhaerent.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French adherent.

Etymology: < Middle French adherent (French adhérent ) (noun) person who is connected to someone (1331), person who has allegiance to a cause, partisan (1337), accomplice, collaborator (1346), (adjective) sticky, adhesive (1362–5), (of a thing) attached (c1372–4), (of a person) complicit (c1450) < classical Latin adhaerent- , adhaerēns attached to, in post-classical Latin also concerned with (early 15th cent. in a British source), use as adjective of present participle of adhaerēre adhere v. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin adhaerens person who adheres, follower (from 1345 in British sources).With the form a herdaunt in quot. 1399 at sense A. 1a compare Middle French adherdant adhesive, sticky (1375), Anglo-Norman and Middle French aherdant , aherdaunt (noun) supporter, partisan (14th cent.) < Old French, Middle French aherdre to adhere (see discussion at adhere v.).

A. adj.

a. Having allegiance to a person, party, or cause; steadfast in support of, loyal. rare in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [adjective] > adherent

adherentc1425

inherdand1513

1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 Pleas §10. m. 2 If this same lordes appelantz, or any of hem, evere be a herdaunt to Richard that was kyng and is deposed..thei be in peyne of tresoun.]

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 9 (MED) Mene adherent wilfully to hym he drawith from vice in-to vice, from Evillis to wors.

1451 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 291 (MED) Alle othir that woll be to Me adherent in this Party.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxv My seruauntes shulden forsake bothe father and mother, and be adherande to his spouse.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcij All persones whiche were adherent to his aduersaries part.

1601 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law xiii. f. 86^v It is treason..to bee adherent to the Kings enemies.

a1649 W. Drummond Hist. Scotl. (1655) 32 The Scots who were adherent to the Daulphin of France.

1739 E. A. Laval Compend. Hist. Reformation III. i. v. 261 His Crime was not only his being firmly adherent to the Reformed Religion, but chiefly his having married Louisa of Coligny.

1798 R. Clifford tr. A. Barruel Mem. Hist. Jacobinism IV. xi. 364 The Sophisters adherent to the Duke de la Rochefoucault.

1904 Northwestern Reporter 100 907/2 A..conscientious believer in and adherent follower and practicer of the principles of Christian Science.

2002 Pakistan Newswire (Nexis) 4 Oct. They appealed to the masses of these no-go areas to stay calm and be adherent to party policies.

b. Of a country or state: signatory to a treaty or other formal agreement, esp. one of political or economic union; bound by the terms of such an agreement.

ΚΠ

1884 19th Cent. Dec. 855 If the union be consummated and ratified by imperial legislation, the States adherent to it will become one for some higher purposes of government.

1907 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 1 1007 The diplomatic representatives accredited to Belgium by the adherent powers.

1950 J. W. Christopher Confl. in Far East ix. 155 Hope was expressed that each Government agreeing to make a declaration would try to bring in other nations adherent to the Paris Pact.

2003 C. Read Lenin vii. 226 Key provisions committed adherent parties to support Soviet Russia, call themselves communist parties and fight an unrelenting struggle against centrist social democrats.

2. Physically attached to something; that sticks fast; that sticks together.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > attached by something adhesive > apt or tending to adhere

adherent?1541

stickingc1550

adhering1592

clasping1611

cleaving1641

clunging1647

tenacious1656

adhesive1663

clinginga1763

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. H.j, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The sayd medycamentes y^t be adherent, as in the vlceres of the ventricle... It [sc. the ventricle or stomach] hath nede of remedyes y^t may draw to it, & almoste in all partes to be coagulate & cleuyng.

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India To Rdr. sig. aa.viij^v He knew nothing of America with the hole fyrme lande adherent thereunto.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 215 On the South side vpon a rocke, and adherent, stood the castle.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 547 Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung, And stuck adherent.

1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. lxxxi. 282 It was not very adherent to any other Place than the Coccyx.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 463 If a portion is strongly adherent to the uterus, we may by this force invert the uterus.

1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 45 It is better that they [sc. porphyra] should be adherent to some stone or shell.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 240 Marked by two bands of adherent incrustation.

1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 25 Any adherent grit will cause scratches.

1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. iii. 44 A few layers of follicle-cells remain adherent to it.

1954 R. G. Macfarlane in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. x. 195 Corpuscles, particularly red cells, tend to form adherent masses rather than remaining discrete.

1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts ix. 120/2 If you have let the adherent waffle batter grow hard..soak it in hot, sudsy water.

†3. figurative. Attached to a person or thing as an attribute or circumstance; associated, concomitant. Obsolete.Frequently opposed to inherent.

ΚΠ

1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) v. sig. P.iv In fine he equal is to Joue to him adherent be Four thinges, [etc.].

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Dv If y^e holines by there attire presaged be in them selues, than is it not in the garments, & why do they than attribute that to the garments, whiche is neither adherente to the one nor yet inherent in the other?

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. viii. f. 41 An adjunct is eyther inherent in the subject, or adherent to it.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 151 A Passion so adhærent to the Nature of man.

1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year: Winter ii. 26 Then we shall see things as they are, the evill circumstances and the crooked intentions, the adherent unhandsomenesse and the direct crimes.

1725 I. Watts Logick i. ii. 4. 34 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.

1790 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 136/2 That the seeds of contention are adherent to our natures is undeniable.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Wks. II. 213 The transitoriness adherent to all antithesis; for the identity or the absolute is alone eternal.

4. Botany. Of an organ of an inflorescence: superficially attached to another dissimilar part, as a stamen to a petal. Frequently with to. Cf. adnate adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > cohering or not cohering

free1757

solute1760

connate1785

segregate1793

cohering1796

adherent1806

adnate1830

coherent1830

adglutinate1831

accrete1832

coadunate1839

inapplicate1855

coadnate1866

inseparate1880

1806 tr. A. L. de Jussieu in Ann. Bot. 2 257 This genus has a calyx adherent with the base of the ovary.

1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 44 The stamens slightly adherent to the base of the petals.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 157 The coat of the latter [sc. sweet chestnut] is a perianth, adherent to an inferior ovary.

1911 Amer. Botanist 17 67 The four-parted calyx is adherent to the ovary, and thus eventually becomes part of the fruit.

1954 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 41 540/1 In the field..the only tendency to form stamens was seen as a vestigial development of anthers or filaments adherent to the pistil.

2005 Plant Cell 17 336/3 Organs may either be free or show different patterns of fusion with each other... Different types of organ may be adherent (e.g., the stamens and corolla of Antirrhinum).

5. Mathematics. Of a point: being such that every neighbourhood of it meets a given set. Chiefly in adherent point. Cf. point of closure at closure n. Additions.

ΚΠ

1942 Math. Rev. 3 137/1 A necessary and sufficient condition..is that every filter which has open sets of E as a base and which has at most one adherent point be convergent... Every filter having a base of open sets and possessing a single adherent point converges to that point.

1978 Jrnl. Karnatak Univ.: Sci. 23 38 A point x is said to be a δ-adherent point of a set A in a space X if the interior of every closed neighbourhood of x intersects A.

1989 W. Gellert et al. VNR Conc. Encycl. Math. (ed. 2) xxxiv. 684 The set of points adherent to X.

2005 N. S. Dairbekov et al. tr. A. D. Alexandrov Convex Polyhedra ii. 146 An open set is characterized by the requirement that none of its points is an adherent point of the complement.

B. n.

a. A steadfast supporter of a person, party, or cause; a follower, a loyalist. Also with to. rare in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > adherent

followerOE

manOE

soldier1340

suerc1384

suitora1398

adherent1426

clienta1464

aggregator1541

sectator?1541

suppost1547

ensuer1550

adherer1561

sectary1590

symbolizer1607

acolyte1623

sectarian1819

tailer1838

1426 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1426 §12. m. 3 And þat eche of hem be good lord to alle þe adherentes, consaillers and favourers of þat oþer.

a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 129 (MED) Vnto þe tyme his said kyng hade made such ende with hym, his adherentes, and fauctours, as he desired.

a1500 (a1469) in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 69 (MED) Nicholas B., with other his servants and adherents, hath, in riotouse wyse, assaulted our liegeman.

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. viii. f. lxxx^v/2 Luthere and his adherentys holde thys heresye, that all holy order ys nothyng.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 139 The kingis adherentis.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 137 The dependants and adhærents of Seianus.

1674 H. Oldenburg Let. 10 July in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) IV. 387 The news from Windsor, is, that the French King hath..quite routed the Lorainers and his adherents.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 17 June 81 Jack Sneaker is a hearty adherent to the present establishment.

1812 J. Brady Clavis calendaria I. 35 The Sans Culotte adherents of Robespierre.

1849 T. B. Macaulay 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.

1918 R. P. Porter Japan i. iii. 57 Konishi Yukinaga—an adherent to the party headed by Hideyoshi's widow—no longer dreamed of entering Peking.

b. A person who holds steadfastly to a particular belief, set of ideas, etc.; an exponent, advocate, or devotee of.

ΚΠ

1658 T. Carwell Labyrinthus Cantuariensis xx. 241 To say it can erre..does actually expose and abandon all the Adherents of that opinion, to an inevitable wavering and uncertainty in Faith.

1695 J. Norris Lett. conc. Love of God x. 218 Neither shall I..measure the Truth of the Proposition by the Number of its Adherents.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea IV. v. xxxiii. 257 Nadir declared himself an adherent to the doctrine of Hannifa, in opposition to those expounders of the Mahommedan law.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §1. 4 The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

1863 E. H. Gillett Life & Times J. Huss 76 The theologians of the University of Paris saw in him [sc. John Huss] an adherent of the philosophy of the Realists.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Supremacist.., an advocate or adherent of some concept of group supremacy.

1991 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 18 He [sc. Justin] is a firm adherent, not only of Plato's doctrine, but of his methods of enquiry.

c. A signatory of (also to) a treaty or other formal agreement, esp. one of political or economic union.

ΚΠ

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XIII. 1027/1 The Elector of Bavaria and many adherents to the treaty followed the treacherous example.

1888 Sugar Cane Nov. 609 The adherents of the Convention..would have to occupy the well-known seat between the two stools.

1921 D. J. Hill Amer. World Policies i. 34 Persia is the only other Asiatic State invited to become an adherent of the League [of Nations].

1948 Polit. Sci. Q. 62 402 The agreement of December 1907, creating the International Office of Public Health, divided the member states... New adherents to the agreement might choose their groups.

2008 D. N. Kenney & P. G. Schrag Asylum Denied iv. 98 The United States was not an original adherent to the treaty and did not agree to become bound by its terms until late in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

†2. A property, quality, or condition attached to or associated with something; a concomitant, an adjunct. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > accompanying circumstance

adherency1608

adherenta1610

concomitant1621

concomitancy1631

collateral1641

concomitance1652

comitant1654

adhesion1827

collateralism1834

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. ix. sig. bv Vnto this noble vertue [fortitude] be attendaunt, or as it were continuall adherentes; dyuers uertues.]

a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) xxxi. 37 All those goods which are peculiar adherents to the nature of man.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 14 Not a true limb..but an adherent, a sore, the gangrene of a limb.

1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 13 This Motion of the Soul is a necessary Adherent to our Beings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	adherent
释义	adherentadj.n. Brit. /ədˈhɪərənt/, /ədˈhɪərn̩t/, /adˈhɪərənt/, /adˈhɪərn̩t/, U.S. /ædˈhɪrənt/, /ædˈhɛrənt/, /ədˈhɪrənt/, /ədˈhɛrənt/ Forms: late Middle English aderent, late Middle English adherant, late Middle English– adherent, 1500s adheirant (Scottish), 1500s adherande (in print of lost Middle English MS), 1500s adherente, 1600s adhaerent. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French adherent. Etymology: < Middle French adherent (French adhérent ) (noun) person who is connected to someone (1331), person who has allegiance to a cause, partisan (1337), accomplice, collaborator (1346), (adjective) sticky, adhesive (1362–5), (of a thing) attached (c1372–4), (of a person) complicit (c1450) < classical Latin adhaerent- , adhaerēns attached to, in post-classical Latin also concerned with (early 15th cent. in a British source), use as adjective of present participle of adhaerēre adhere v. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin adhaerens person who adheres, follower (from 1345 in British sources).With the form a herdaunt in quot. 1399 at sense A. 1a compare Middle French adherdant adhesive, sticky (1375), Anglo-Norman and Middle French aherdant , aherdaunt (noun) supporter, partisan (14th cent.) < Old French, Middle French aherdre to adhere (see discussion at adhere v.). A. adj. 1. a. Having allegiance to a person, party, or cause; steadfast in support of, loyal. rare in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [adjective] > adherent adherentc1425 inherdand1513 1399 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1399 Pleas §10. m. 2 If this same lordes appelantz, or any of hem, evere be a herdaunt to Richard that was kyng and is deposed..thei be in peyne of tresoun.] c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 9 (MED) Mene adherent wilfully to hym he drawith from vice in-to vice, from Evillis to wors. 1451 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 291 (MED) Alle othir that woll be to Me adherent in this Party. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxv My seruauntes shulden forsake bothe father and mother, and be adherande to his spouse. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcij All persones whiche were adherent to his aduersaries part. 1601 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law xiii. f. 86^v It is treason..to bee adherent to the Kings enemies. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. Scotl. (1655) 32 The Scots who were adherent to the Daulphin of France. 1739 E. A. Laval Compend. Hist. Reformation III. i. v. 261 His Crime was not only his being firmly adherent to the Reformed Religion, but chiefly his having married Louisa of Coligny. 1798 R. Clifford tr. A. Barruel Mem. Hist. Jacobinism IV. xi. 364 The Sophisters adherent to the Duke de la Rochefoucault. 1904 Northwestern Reporter 100 907/2 A..conscientious believer in and adherent follower and practicer of the principles of Christian Science. 2002 Pakistan Newswire (Nexis) 4 Oct. They appealed to the masses of these no-go areas to stay calm and be adherent to party policies. b. Of a country or state: signatory to a treaty or other formal agreement, esp. one of political or economic union; bound by the terms of such an agreement. ΚΠ 1884 19th Cent. Dec. 855 If the union be consummated and ratified by imperial legislation, the States adherent to it will become one for some higher purposes of government. 1907 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 1 1007 The diplomatic representatives accredited to Belgium by the adherent powers. 1950 J. W. Christopher Confl. in Far East ix. 155 Hope was expressed that each Government agreeing to make a declaration would try to bring in other nations adherent to the Paris Pact. 2003 C. Read Lenin vii. 226 Key provisions committed adherent parties to support Soviet Russia, call themselves communist parties and fight an unrelenting struggle against centrist social democrats. 2. Physically attached to something; that sticks fast; that sticks together. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > attached by something adhesive > apt or tending to adhere adherent?1541 stickingc1550 adhering1592 clasping1611 cleaving1641 clunging1647 tenacious1656 adhesive1663 clinginga1763 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. H.j, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The sayd medycamentes y^t be adherent, as in the vlceres of the ventricle... It [sc. the ventricle or stomach] hath nede of remedyes y^t may draw to it, & almoste in all partes to be coagulate & cleuyng. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India To Rdr. sig. aa.viij^v He knew nothing of America with the hole fyrme lande adherent thereunto. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 215 On the South side vpon a rocke, and adherent, stood the castle. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 547 Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung, And stuck adherent. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. lxxxi. 282 It was not very adherent to any other Place than the Coccyx. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 463 If a portion is strongly adherent to the uterus, we may by this force invert the uterus. 1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 45 It is better that they [sc. porphyra] should be adherent to some stone or shell. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 240 Marked by two bands of adherent incrustation. 1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 25 Any adherent grit will cause scratches. 1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. iii. 44 A few layers of follicle-cells remain adherent to it. 1954 R. G. Macfarlane in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. x. 195 Corpuscles, particularly red cells, tend to form adherent masses rather than remaining discrete. 1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts ix. 120/2 If you have let the adherent waffle batter grow hard..soak it in hot, sudsy water. †3. figurative. Attached to a person or thing as an attribute or circumstance; associated, concomitant. Obsolete.Frequently opposed to inherent. ΚΠ 1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) v. sig. P.iv In fine he equal is to Joue to him adherent be Four thinges, [etc.]. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Dv If y^e holines by there attire presaged be in them selues, than is it not in the garments, & why do they than attribute that to the garments, whiche is neither adherente to the one nor yet inherent in the other? 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. viii. f. 41 An adjunct is eyther inherent in the subject, or adherent to it. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 151 A Passion so adhærent to the Nature of man. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year: Winter ii. 26 Then we shall see things as they are, the evill circumstances and the crooked intentions, the adherent unhandsomenesse and the direct crimes. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. ii. 4. 34 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. 1790 Town & Country Mag. Mar. 136/2 That the seeds of contention are adherent to our natures is undeniable. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Wks. II. 213 The transitoriness adherent to all antithesis; for the identity or the absolute is alone eternal. 4. Botany. Of an organ of an inflorescence: superficially attached to another dissimilar part, as a stamen to a petal. Frequently with to. Cf. adnate adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > cohering or not cohering free1757 solute1760 connate1785 segregate1793 cohering1796 adherent1806 adnate1830 coherent1830 adglutinate1831 accrete1832 coadunate1839 inapplicate1855 coadnate1866 inseparate1880 1806 tr. A. L. de Jussieu in Ann. Bot. 2 257 This genus has a calyx adherent with the base of the ovary. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 44 The stamens slightly adherent to the base of the petals. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 157 The coat of the latter [sc. sweet chestnut] is a perianth, adherent to an inferior ovary. 1911 Amer. Botanist 17 67 The four-parted calyx is adherent to the ovary, and thus eventually becomes part of the fruit. 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 41 540/1 In the field..the only tendency to form stamens was seen as a vestigial development of anthers or filaments adherent to the pistil. 2005 Plant Cell 17 336/3 Organs may either be free or show different patterns of fusion with each other... Different types of organ may be adherent (e.g., the stamens and corolla of Antirrhinum). 5. Mathematics. Of a point: being such that every neighbourhood of it meets a given set. Chiefly in adherent point. Cf. point of closure at closure n. Additions. ΚΠ 1942 Math. Rev. 3 137/1 A necessary and sufficient condition..is that every filter which has open sets of E as a base and which has at most one adherent point be convergent... Every filter having a base of open sets and possessing a single adherent point converges to that point. 1978 Jrnl. Karnatak Univ.: Sci. 23 38 A point x is said to be a δ-adherent point of a set A in a space X if the interior of every closed neighbourhood of x intersects A. 1989 W. Gellert et al. VNR Conc. Encycl. Math. (ed. 2) xxxiv. 684 The set of points adherent to X. 2005 N. S. Dairbekov et al. tr. A. D. Alexandrov Convex Polyhedra ii. 146 An open set is characterized by the requirement that none of its points is an adherent point of the complement. B. n. 1. a. A steadfast supporter of a person, party, or cause; a follower, a loyalist. Also with to. rare in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] > supporter or encourager > adherent followerOE manOE soldier1340 suerc1384 suitora1398 adherent1426 clienta1464 aggregator1541 sectator?1541 suppost1547 ensuer1550 adherer1561 sectary1590 symbolizer1607 acolyte1623 sectarian1819 tailer1838 1426 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1426 §12. m. 3 And þat eche of hem be good lord to alle þe adherentes, consaillers and favourers of þat oþer. a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 129 (MED) Vnto þe tyme his said kyng hade made such ende with hym, his adherentes, and fauctours, as he desired. a1500 (a1469) in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 69 (MED) Nicholas B., with other his servants and adherents, hath, in riotouse wyse, assaulted our liegeman. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. viii. f. lxxx^v/2 Luthere and his adherentys holde thys heresye, that all holy order ys nothyng. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 139 The kingis adherentis. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 137 The dependants and adhærents of Seianus. 1674 H. Oldenburg Let. 10 July in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) IV. 387 The news from Windsor, is, that the French King hath..quite routed the Lorainers and his adherents. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 17 June 81 Jack Sneaker is a hearty adherent to the present establishment. 1812 J. Brady Clavis calendaria I. 35 The Sans Culotte adherents of Robespierre. 1849 T. B. Macaulay 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. 1918 R. P. Porter Japan i. iii. 57 Konishi Yukinaga—an adherent to the party headed by Hideyoshi's widow—no longer dreamed of entering Peking. b. A person who holds steadfastly to a particular belief, set of ideas, etc.; an exponent, advocate, or devotee of. ΚΠ 1658 T. Carwell Labyrinthus Cantuariensis xx. 241 To say it can erre..does actually expose and abandon all the Adherents of that opinion, to an inevitable wavering and uncertainty in Faith. 1695 J. Norris Lett. conc. Love of God x. 218 Neither shall I..measure the Truth of the Proposition by the Number of its Adherents. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea IV. v. xxxiii. 257 Nadir declared himself an adherent to the doctrine of Hannifa, in opposition to those expounders of the Mahommedan law. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. i. §1. 4 The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. 1863 E. H. Gillett Life & Times J. Huss 76 The theologians of the University of Paris saw in him [sc. John Huss] an adherent of the philosophy of the Realists. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Supremacist.., an advocate or adherent of some concept of group supremacy. 1991 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 18 He [sc. Justin] is a firm adherent, not only of Plato's doctrine, but of his methods of enquiry. c. A signatory of (also to) a treaty or other formal agreement, esp. one of political or economic union. ΚΠ 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XIII. 1027/1 The Elector of Bavaria and many adherents to the treaty followed the treacherous example. 1888 Sugar Cane Nov. 609 The adherents of the Convention..would have to occupy the well-known seat between the two stools. 1921 D. J. Hill Amer. World Policies i. 34 Persia is the only other Asiatic State invited to become an adherent of the League [of Nations]. 1948 Polit. Sci. Q. 62 402 The agreement of December 1907, creating the International Office of Public Health, divided the member states... New adherents to the agreement might choose their groups. 2008 D. N. Kenney & P. G. Schrag Asylum Denied iv. 98 The United States was not an original adherent to the treaty and did not agree to become bound by its terms until late in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. †2. A property, quality, or condition attached to or associated with something; a concomitant, an adjunct. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > accompaniment > [noun] > accompanying circumstance adherency1608 adherenta1610 concomitant1621 concomitancy1631 collateral1641 concomitance1652 comitant1654 adhesion1827 collateralism1834 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. ix. sig. bv Vnto this noble vertue [fortitude] be attendaunt, or as it were continuall adherentes; dyuers uertues.] a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) xxxi. 37 All those goods which are peculiar adherents to the nature of man. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 14 Not a true limb..but an adherent, a sore, the gangrene of a limb. 1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 13 This Motion of the Soul is a necessary Adherent to our Beings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.c1425
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