supervene

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The statute-book was rent in pieces; anarchy threatened to supervene; England prepared to take possession again.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

How and whence to these thoughts, these strong probabilities, the ascertaining vision, the intuitive knowledge may finally supervene, can be learned only by the fact.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

The typhoid state may supervene in either, and in both the febrile movement is remittent in character.

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

In some cases the symptoms of cerebral disturbance are greater in degree, and in these coma may soon supervene upon delirium.

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

But he left the house holding a very strong belief that meningitis would supervene.

From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.