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supervene

[soo-per-veen] / ˌsu pərˈvin /


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If the feeding of a liberal allowance of grain be suddenly commenced, fatal diarrhœa will often supervene.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings

According to Murchison, paralysis does not supervene until several weeks after the commencement of convalescence.

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

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 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

In cases where grave nervous symptoms supervene and the typhoid condition is developed the facies assumes all the characteristics of that state.

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

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 insanity supervenes on epilepsy, of where the latter disease is induced by insanity, a cure is very seldom effected: from my own observation, I do not recollect a single case of recovery.

From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

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

From Time Magazine Archive

After awhile the anger appeared to subside, silence supervened, and Mrs. Dundyke watched through the live-long night.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

In the table which I have given respecting question 2, the reader will recollect that I stated that puerperal fever supervened in five cows immediately after parturition.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

During all the illness which supervened on the paralysis, Blucher could seldom, if ever, be prevailed on to leave his master’s bedside, and every one who approached the patient was eyed with extreme suspicion.

From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

There had been a slight hæmorrhage, but a sudden collapse had supervened.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by M. Beer

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

Even Astræa brightened, and grew better; her fretfulness was disappearing, and a tone of contentment and cheerfulness supervening upon it.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

And he began a commentary on fourteen of the above-mentioned moral odes, in the vulgar tongue, which, through his death supervening, is only completed for three....

From Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler

The incessant drenching from sea and sky to which they had been so long subjected, chilled their slackened circulation to such a degree, that death from torpor seemed rapidly supervening.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer

It struck Lafcadio, and in consequence of the inflammation supervening he lost the sight of an eye.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard




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