Definition of Supervene

1. Verb. Take place as an additional or unexpected development.

Generic synonyms: Come About, Fall Out, Go On, Hap, Happen, Occur, Pass, Pass Off, Take Place
Derivative terms: Supervention

Definition of Supervene

1. v. i. To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Definition of Supervene

1. Verb. to follow something closely, either as a consequence or in contrast ¹

2. Verb. to supersede ¹

3. Verb. to be dependent on an earlier event ¹

4. Verb. (philosophy) to be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Supervene

1. [v -VENED, -VENING, -VENES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Supervene

supertyphoon
supertyphoons
supertyping
superugly
superuniversal
superunleaded
superuser
superusers
supervacaneous
supervacaneously
supervacaneousness
supervacuous
supervaluation
supervaluationism
supervaluations
supervene (current term)
supervene upon
supervened
supervenes
supervenience
superveniences
supervenient
supervening
supervention
superventions
superventricular
supervibrator
supervibrators
supervillain
supervillainess

Literary usage of Supervene

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1838)
"Treatment where poisonous effects supervene during the smoking of Stramonium. By GG SIGMOND, MD—Should incoherent talking, flushed face, alteration of ..."

2. Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: A Handbook for Students and by Theodor Billroth (1878)
"General Incidental Diseases which may supervene upon Wounds and other Inflammation Nests. The local, incidental wound-diseases hitherto described are always ..."

3. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"In other cases of tabes dorsalis, cerebral symptoms sometimes supervene and the patient becomes insane. (See LOCOMOTOR ATAXY AS ALLIED TO NEUROSES. ..."

4. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"Certain Phenomena which supervene during the Flow of the Fluid.—Coughing Fits.— Flow of blood from the Wound. ..."

5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1848)
"... after almost any other disease : and it may be added that the risk is •till greater in those cases of secondary pneumonia that supervene on measles. ..."

6. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"... and the period when the right of voting shall supervene, is too long if it is sixty days. The general opinion throughout the State, if taken, ..."

7. Infant Feeding and Its Influence on Life, Or, The Causes and Prevention of by Charles Henry Felix Routh (1879)
"Cow's Milk, Adjuncts to.—Necessity of using Test Paper.—How some kinds of Diarrhoea which supervene are to be Treated.— The Exhibition of Soups.—Raw Meat. ..."

8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1838)
"Treatment where poisonous effects supervene during the smoking of Stramonium. By GG SIGMOND, MD—Should incoherent talking, flushed face, alteration of ..."

9. Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: A Handbook for Students and by Theodor Billroth (1878)
"General Incidental Diseases which may supervene upon Wounds and other Inflammation Nests. The local, incidental wound-diseases hitherto described are always ..."

10. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"In other cases of tabes dorsalis, cerebral symptoms sometimes supervene and the patient becomes insane. (See LOCOMOTOR ATAXY AS ALLIED TO NEUROSES. ..."

11. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"Certain Phenomena which supervene during the Flow of the Fluid.—Coughing Fits.— Flow of blood from the Wound. ..."

12. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1848)
"... after almost any other disease : and it may be added that the risk is •till greater in those cases of secondary pneumonia that supervene on measles. ..."

13. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"... and the period when the right of voting shall supervene, is too long if it is sixty days. The general opinion throughout the State, if taken, ..."

14. Infant Feeding and Its Influence on Life, Or, The Causes and Prevention of by Charles Henry Felix Routh (1879)
"Cow's Milk, Adjuncts to.—Necessity of using Test Paper.—How some kinds of Diarrhoea which supervene are to be Treated.— The Exhibition of Soups.—Raw Meat. ..."

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