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English
Adjective
cohæsive (comparative more cohæsive, superlative most cohæsive)
- Obsolete and rare spelling of cohesive
1657, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick; or, The Entire Body of Logick in English. Unfolding to the Meanest Capacity the Way to Dispute Well, and to Refute All Fallacies Whatsoever., 2nd edition, London: John Streater, , page 88:Cohæſive Identity, is either of the Subject, or of the Accident.
1659, George Fox, A Primer for the Schollers and Doctors of Europe, but Especially to Them in and about the (Called) Two Famous Universities in England, Oxford and Cambridge, , London: Thomas Simmons , page 11:What is a Canon a Concomitant a Cohæſive, an Hypoſtatical a Cauſal, an Illuſtration, what a definite, an Indefinite, what an Equivalent?
1725, James Sedgwick, “Of many Remedies useful in Fevers, why, and when to be used; particularly Sweating; and when to be avoided. Of Concoction, &c.”, in A New Treatise on Liquors: Wherein the Use and Abuse of Wine, Malt-Drinks, Water, &c. Are Particularly Consider’d, in Many Diseases, Constitutions, and Ages. , London: Charles Rivington, , page 121:If a Fever proceed only from a Plethora, a Fulneſs of Blood or Humours, from their Quantity and Redundancy, from their cohæſive Bulks or Thickneſs: […]
1796, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy, 2nd edition, volumes II (Salts, Inflammables, and Metallic Substances), London: P. Elmsly, , page 45:COHÆSIVE MINERAL PITCH.
1903 (first published – 1839; second edition – 1845), Philip James Bailey, Festus, page 721:[…] for, when thine orb, dispersed
In fiery fragments, lessening more and more
By self-resolvent forces from all claim
Cohæsive, robbed my memory of a form
I once so dearly loved, tears so mine eyes
Drowned, grief my heart so panged, I fled;