Definition of Supervention

1. Noun. A following on in addition.

Generic synonyms: Happening, Natural Event, Occurrence, Occurrent
Derivative terms: Supervene

Definition of Supervention

1. n. The act of supervening.

Definition of Supervention

1. Noun. The act of supervening ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Supervention

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supervention

supervacaneous
supervacaneously
supervacaneousness
supervacuous
supervaluation
supervaluationism
supervaluations
supervene
supervene upon
supervened
supervenes
supervenience
superveniences
supervenient
supervening
supervention (current term)
superventions
superventricular
supervibrator
supervibrators
supervillain
supervillainess
supervillainesses
supervillains
superviolent
supervirile
supervirility
supervirtuosi
supervirtuoso
supervirtuosos

Literary usage of Supervention

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On concussion of the spine, nervous shock, and other obscure injuries of the by John Eric Erichsen (1875)
"Blow on Spine and Head—Slow supervention of Paralysis—Fits—Death by falling into River.—HN, aged 43, a carpenter at Bishops Stortford, admitted into ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1835)
"Case of Adhesion of the Pericardium to the Heart, of long standing, with the supervention of oedema of the Lungs, which terminated fatally in a few hours. ..."

3. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the by George James Guthrie (1855)
"supervention of mania. Effects of concussion at a later period. Relapses from irregularities. 242. ..."

4. Lectures on fever: Delivered in the Theatre of the Meath Hospital and County by William Stokes (1876)
"... (1) primary effects of the fever poison in causing depression, (2) supervention of secondary local disease— Views of Dr. Graves on the subject of giving ..."

5. Medical and Surgical Memoirs: Containing Investigations on the Geographical by Joseph Jones (1876)
"The supervention of inflammation of sornione or other of the internal organs, but more especially of the lungs as in pneumonia; 4tb. ..."

6. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"supervention OF TETANUS OPON SEVERE INJURY TO A LIMB. 413 tion supervene upon severe injury to a 1mb, it ought to be ascertained before amputation be ..."

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