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supervene

[soo-per-veen] / ˌsu pərˈvin /


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That the young woman had expensive tastes he did not suppose, and he had great and not ungrounded confidence in his own power of repression of any taste not to his mind, should any supervene.

From Mariquita A Novel by John Ayscough

Swoonings, which supervene in the Course of other Diseases, never afford a favourable Prognostic; as they denote Weakness, and Weakness is an Obstacle to Recovery.

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

Swoonings which supervene in Diseases, accompanied with great Evacuations, are cured like those which are owing to Weakness; and Endeavours should be used to restrain or moderate the Evacuations.

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

This is in correspondence with what occurs in other septic diseases, and accounts for the albuminuria and interstitial nephritis which often supervene in the advanced stages.

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

Downstairs he told Colonel Mandeville: "He may pull through if meningitis does not supervene."

From A Soldier's Son by Maude M. Butler

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

When they rise, they seem perfectly bewildered, till they regain the flock, when they continue to feed well, till another paroxysm supervenes.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He might have told of the encounter at the time, but for the home calamity that supervened upon it; that drove away other topics.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

Thus, both in New England and in New York, there supervened a period of divided councils and enfeebled administration, and this at the precise moment when the colonies were about to encounter new perils.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

Scarcely, however, had the pope and emperor felt their positions assured, and preparations had been thus made to take advantage of the situation, when a catastrophe supervened which defied all human calculation.

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

Soon dysentery supervened, and on the 12th of January 1519 he passed away in the sixtieth year of his age.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

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

Maria Hughes, aged two years, admitted for Convulsions supervening upon Hooping-cough—suckled one year three months.

From Remarks on the Subject of Lactation by Edward Morton

This," said the professor of the healing art, "is a case of genuine nervous apoplexy, supervening on an undue determination of blood to the head, and a plethora of the vessels.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Cold and rain together, supervening in that hour of the spirit’s default, may well have made me light-headed; nor was it easy to distinguish the tooth of self-reproach from that of genuine hunger.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

For if the pleasure of virtuous activity is a supervening end beyond the activity, it becomes a supervening end beyond the happiness of virtuous activity, which thus ceases to be the final end.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various




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