COHERENT

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid. Arbuthnot.

2.
a.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

3.
a.

Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker. Watts.

4.
a.

Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant. [Obs.] Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent. Shak.

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