adv. [f. COHERENT + -LY2.] In a coherent manner; connectedly; consistently.

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1618.  Bolton, Florus, II. xvii. 142. The Warre lasted … not continually, or coherently, but as causes were ministred.

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1705.  Berkeley, Commonpl. Bk., Wks. 1871, IV. 432. Mathematicians seem not to speak clearly and coherently of equality.

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1848.  C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, viii. (1873), 68. Having reflected a few minutes in order to arrange coherently what I had to say.

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1885.  T. Raleigh, in Law. Q. Rev., April, 155. Coherently speaking lunatics.

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