adhaerescunt

Updated: May 11, 2025

By the second, they are sworn, as it were, to follow all their lives the authority of some particular school, to which "tanquam scopulo, adhaerescunt;" for the condition of their engagement is to defend certain doctrines, and even mere forms of speech, without examination, or to examine only in order to defend them.

Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke - Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope