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supervene

[soo-per-veen] / ˌsu pərˈvin /


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We trusted, therefore, that extremely lenient legislation would supervene, upon its very opposite.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School

This will go on for months, or even for years, and recoveries occasionally take place, while in other cases, and especially when the conditions of life are bad, acute glanders supervene.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

You cannot absolve psychology as if it stood independent of ethics or religion, nor can aesthetic considerations merely supervene on moral.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If the Distemper rises to a violent Degree indeed, a Delirium and Convulsions supervene.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

For when any of these Evacuations supervene, the Fever vanishes; the Patient resumes his Strength, and perfectly recovers.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Mr Blackwell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that animals should be "stunned at the time of death", which would render them "insensible to pain until death supervenes".

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2014

For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, without haste and without rest, mine has done so, and with the prospect of what I have called the rectification, a sense of great relief, a great lapse of awkwardness, supervenes.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James

There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have known many cases, in addition to those already given, where the parturient process was prolonged for hours in consequence of the animal's being milked, in whom fever supervened almost immediately afterwards.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

Other troubles supervened, and when he arrived in England he found his picture in such a state that he was compelled to abandon it and begin again.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

The night before toothache had deprived him of sleep, an attack of fever supervened, and six months of harsh imprisonment had left him little physical endurance.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

A severe illness, during which his life was despaired of, supervened; and, though an elastic nature recovered, it still retained traces of this "maddening misery."

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2017

Very soon after supper he had petitioned to be taken to bed, and then unpleasant if not serious symptoms had been no long time in supervening.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

Of pneumonia supervening consumption complicated with other diseases, the main symptom of which was insanity.

From Quaint Epitaphs by Various

We have indirect evidence of this in many variations and diseases supervening during so-called growth at a particular period, and being inherited at a corresponding period.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin

To escape the penalty assigned thereto by the disposition of this decree, in vain does he turn to an excuse drawn from supervening provocation.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous




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