inhesion
(ɪnˈhiːʒən)
Also 7–8 inhæsion.
[ad. late L. inhæsiōn-em, n. of action from inhærēre to inhere; cf. adhesion, cohesion.]
The action or fact of inhering, esp. as a quality or attribute; inherence. subject of inhesion, that in which a quality or attribute inheres.
| a 1631 Donne in Select. (1840) 65 The terms of satisfaction in Christ, of acceptation in the Father, of imputation to us, or inhesion in us, are all pious and religious phrases. 1666 Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. Wks. 1772 III. 17 The nature of a substance consisting in this, that it can subsist of itself without being in any thing else, as in a subject of inhesion. 1773 Reid Aristotle's Log. i. §3 (1788) 8 A distinction between a subject of predication and a subject of inhesion. 1874 Sayce Compar. Philol. vii. 289 The difference made in formal logic between predication and inhesion in a proposition. |