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English
Etymology
From co- + inhere.
Pronunciation
Verb
coinhere (third-person singular simple present coinheres, present participle coinhering, simple past and past participle coinhered)
- (intransitive) To inhere or exist together, as in one substance.
1859, William Hamilton, “Lecture XXIII. The Presentative Faculty.—I. Perception,—Was Reid a Natural Realist?”, in H L Mansel and John Veitch, editors, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic , volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 78: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.