Literary notes about Adhesion (AI summary)
The term "adhesion" has been used in literature to signify both concrete and abstract forms of attachment. In scientific and medical texts, for example, authors such as Galen discuss adhesion as a preliminary step to assimilation and application in nutritional processes [1, 2], while in descriptions of matter it appears as the physical binding of liquids to solids or the resistance of composite parts to disintegration [3, 4, 5, 6]. In other contexts, the word takes on a metaphorical meaning, indicating allegiance or support, as seen in political and social discourse—where leaders and nations declare their adhesion to causes or alliances [7, 8, 9], and even in satirical commentary on popular opinion regarding constitutional fidelity [10]. Additionally, literary works have employed "adhesion" to evoke processes of association leading to larger amalgamations [11, 12], or to describe specific physical phenomena such as the attachment of substances to surfaces [13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. This diverse usage illustrates the flexibility of the term in capturing both tangible and intangible unions across various fields of thought.
- Assimilation is preceded by adhesion ( prosphysis ) and that again, by application ( prosthesis ).
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - Chapter XI Nutrition analysed into the stages of application ( prosthesis ), adhesion ( prosphysis ), and assimilation.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - Adhesion of liquids to solids.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Adhesion of drops.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Things solid like stones resist disintegration by the close adhesion of their parts.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius - Adhesion may exist between two solids, between a solid and a fluid, or between two fluids.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - And it would be greatly to be desired by their friends that France and Italy also should see their way to adhesion.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - —Austria notifies its adhesion to the Allies.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - All gave their adhesion.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - Get the Constitution ready; and all men will swear to it: for do not 'Addresses of adhesion' arrive by the cartload?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - In white [leprosy], again, there is adhesion of the nutriment but no real assimilation.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - And in order that this may come about, we must assume a preliminary process of adhesion , 66 and for that, again, one of presentation .
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen - " So to a man they gave in their adhesion in that quarter of the country.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon - Several extensive perforations existed; and, at one point, permanent adhesion to the ribs had taken place.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Several extensive perforations existed; and, at one point, permanent adhesion to the ribs had taken place.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
