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verb (inher, ing)
  1. To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.
  • 1985: But just as the presence of the Lord himself can in a bit of bread, and bread is no more than flour and water, so the Temple is, without God"s presence, no more than bricks and stone and slime and a little gold and silver. " Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
Etymology: Latin inhaerare, from in- + haerare "stick".

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