Search the Dictionary

The theory, principles, or authority of constitutional government; attachment or adherene to a constitution or constitutional government. Carlyle.

One who adheres to the constitution of the country. Bolingbroke.

One who adheres to a convention or treaty.

The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. Bentley.

Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed. Shak. Apostles' creed, Athanasian creed, Nicene creed. See under Apostle, Athanasian, Nicene.

An adherent crust; an incrustation. Pepys.

A one-seeded, one-called, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.

r of good or ill; desert. [Obs.] By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation. Holland.

One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people. Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat. Tennyson.

To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.

ly, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior. The disciples, or The twelve disciples, the twelve selected companions of Jesus; -- also called the apostles. -- Disciples of Christ. See Christian, n…

A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. [Obs.]

The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specifically, in the United States, a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism. G. Eliot.

Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him. Deut. vii. 9.

b) To attack; to make an assault upon. -- To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. -- To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. -- To fall home (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timber…

Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. Sir M. Hale.