supervenient

• It makes no difference to reality itself; it is supervenient, inert, static, a reflexion merely. —  Pragmatism
• Not the will of superiors, else there shall be no unlawful ordinances (for every ordinance hath the will of the ordainer), not the lawfulness of the thing in itself which is ordained neither, for then every ordinance which prescribeth a thing lawful in itself, were it never so inexpedient in respect of supervenient circumstances, should be lawful. —  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
• Now, they who worship the flesh of Christ in the sacrament, must either consider it as present in the sacrament, and in that respect to be adored, because of the personal union of it with the word, or else because of the sacramental union of it with the outward sign, which is a respect supervenient to that of the ubiquity of it in the person of the word. —  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
• For, though we be the children of light, yet our light hath so much darkness, as there must be a supervenient and accessory light of the —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
• How, for instance, does it include sensation, locomotion, or habit? or if the two former should be taken as distinct from life, _toto genere_, and supervenient to it, we then ask what conception is given of _vital_ assimilation as contradistinguished from that of the nucleus of a crystal? —  Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.

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