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adhaerere

adhaerēre [CL] 1 to stick to, stay by. b (tr.) to adjoin. c (fig.) to conform or be devoted to (a belief or practice). d (pr. ppl.) concerned with. tempore de primo noctis mihi nomen adhaesit Aldh. Aen. 58 (Vesper sidus) 1; ibi reside et quietus manens ~e tumbae Bede HE III 12; 10‥ adhesit, ætfealh and oncleofode WW.  b s885 telluris in condenso, ~enti notheas fluvio partes Tamesi Æthelw. IV 3.  c Veteris ‥ Testamenti non medulle sed cortici ~entes Gir. TH III 19; injusticias ‥ quibus omnibus multitudo fratrum Minorum ‥ favet et assentit et ~et Ockham I. & P. 3; nec diu in peccatis morabuntur, eciam si delectabilibus adheserunt Rolle IA 42 p. 277.  d s1396 post multos tractatus concordie ~entes V. Ric. II 129. 2 to adhere, attach oneself to (a person or faction). b (refl.). c (pr. ppl. as sb.) adherent. s1262 an vellent observare dictas ordinaciones ‥ an pocius ~ere illis qui voluerunt illas infringere Leg. Ant. Lond. 54; Nicholao de S. ~endo State Tri. Ed. I 71; 1296 super dictum A. et alios sibi ~entes SelPlMan 43; 1341 quotquot inhabitabant Anglicis adheserunt ExchScot 472; 1558 non ~ebit nec confederabit cum inimicis ‥ regis ActPCIr 48.  b 1286 Bertramus ‥ ~ebat se regi Francie PQW 484a (cf. ib. 485b: †adheredebat se regi Francie).  c 1345 treuge ‥ inter te ac regem ipsum et utriusque vestrum ~entes (Lit. Papae) Ad. Mur. 178; 1435 pro se et suis singulis ~entibus FormA 364; 1491 pernoctans ‥ cum suis ~entibus Sanct. Durh. 45.

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