? Obs. [f. ADHERE + -ER1.] One who adheres or gives his adhesion (to an act, proposal, etc.). More general and loose in its application than adherent, which implies a professed or organized adherer.
1635. F. White, Sabbath-day, 192. A labyrinth, out of which and his adherers [printed adheres] will not easily free themselves.
1649. Drumm. of Hawth., James V., Wks. 1711, 106. It is an errour of state … to condemn to death the adherers to new doctrine.
1650. J. Row (son), Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842), 485. This Supplication given in to the Councill, the number of adhearers there to multiplied daylie.
1733. Swift, Choice of Recorder, Wks. 1745, VIII. 286. A firm adherer to the established church.
