1. existed as a natural or basic quality of something
Usage: past tense of ‘inhere’; formal

Examples

• The power inhered in the office itself, not in the individual.
• A sense of mystery inhered in the ancient building.
• The authority inhered in the constitution from its inception.
• Certain rights inhered in citizenship that could not be taken away.
• The beauty inhered in the simplicity of the design.
• The problem inhered in the system’s basic structure.