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Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

In an adherent manner.

Not adhering.

Adherent part way.

The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [R.]

One who adheres; an adherent.

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

(Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.

A member of the sect of the Babis consisting of the adherents of Baha (Mirza Husain Ali, entitled "Baha 'u 'llah," or, "the Splendor of God"), the elder half brother of Mirza Yahya of Nur, who succeeded the Bab as the head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its rec…

A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric ox…

An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.

To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

An adherent of Descartes.

An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic. Old Catholic, the name assumed in 1870 by members of the Roman Catholic church, who denied the ecumenical character of the Vatican Council, and Rejected its decrees, esp. that concerning the infallibility of the pope, as contrary to the ancient Catholic faith.…

ne of the court party in the time of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon.

orn in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.

appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).