supervene

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Ulcers of the lungs sometimes supervene, and the phthisis pulmonalis in a few weeks terminates in death.

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  1. intransitive verb To come or occur as something extraneous, additional, or unexpected. See Synonyms at follow.
  2. intransitive verb To follow immediately after; ensue.
  3. intransitive verb Philosophy To be dependent on a set of facts or properties in such a way that change can occur only after change has occurred in those facts or properties.

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  • Bewildered by the uncertainty of the struggle which was about to supervene, Marie de Medicis was readily induced to believe in the wisdom of securing two havens of refuge in case of defeat, and to renounce the peril of hazarding all at one blow. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 3
  • There are at times jealousies that supervene, rather than zeal for souls, rash allegations that appear to derive from envy, and make it possible to consider as evil the good being done by others. —  Happy Catholic
  • Whenever non-inflationary conditions should supervene, prices and demand for spurious values collapse like bubbles, shrinking the apparent supply of saleable values, worsening the inflation in real values, and placing price equilibrium farther away than it apparently was. —  Mises Dailies
  • He had looked very grave and shaken his head, saying that fever might supervene, and ended by prescribing a stimulus under another name, and a hot bath Just as if I hadn't sucked up water enough to last me for a month!" —  Menhardoc
  • It is said that the best and most excellent things are in the world when the whole universe responds from every part, perfectly, to those things; and this it is said takes place as the planets arrive at Aries, being when that one of the eighth sphere again reaches the upper invisible firmament, where is also the other Zodiac;[A] and low and evil things prevail when the opposite disposition and order supervene, and thus through the power of change comes the continual mutation of like and unlike, from one opposite to another. —  The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin supervenīre : super-, super- + venīre, to come; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French survenir = Spanish supervenir, sobrevenir = Portuguese sobrevir = Italian supervenire, sopravvenire, from Latin supervenire, come over or upon, overtake, from super, above, + venire, come: see come.
 

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