Citations:inhærent

Adjective: archaic form of

 * 1600, Jo. Cantuar quoted in The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton; Letter XCVII, page #156:
 * I am here verie much troubled with the appeasing of newe controversies about prædestination, justification, liberum arbitrium, the state of the Fathers before the coming of Christe, inhærent justice, and suche like matters, never doubted of by any professor of the Gospell during all the tyme of your aboade and myne in the universitie.
 * 1647, David Jenkins quoted in A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on the Most Entertaining Subjects; second edition, Volume V, page #108:
 * Eighthly, Wee maintaine that the king is king by an inhærent birth‐right, by nature, by Gods law, and by the law of the land  : they say his kingly right is an office upon trust.
 * 1809, Bishop Williams quoted in The History of England; Volume VII, page #139:
 * “ Being told that men in holy orders in the church of England doe challange a power as inhærent in their function, and not in their person, to pronounce and declare remission of sins to such as being penitent doe call for the same ; he answered suddenly, I have ever beleeved there was that power in you that be in orders in the church of England, and therefore I, a miserable sinner, doe humbly desire Almighty God to absolve me of my sinnes, and you, that are his servant in that hight place, to affoord me this heavenly comfort.