Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cohere

Cohere , intransitive verb

[Latin cohaerere, cohaesum; co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See Aghast, a.]

1.
To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Neither knows he... how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. — Locke
2.
To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. — Burke
3.
To suit; to agree; to fit. [Obsolete]
Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing. — Shakespeare