† superˈveniency Obs. rare.
[Formed as prec.: see -ency.]
= prec.
| 1647 M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. Introd. p. viii, Through whose superveniencie the meanest gifts and blessings of nature doe become sufficient to make a man Eternally happy. 1659 Gentl. Calling viii. §16 The more moderate pains become insensible by the superveniency of the more acute. |
b. Sc. Law. The fact or condition of being supervenient: said of a right.
| 1681 Stair Inst. Law Scot. ii. xxvii. 136 If they should not be entered before the superveniency. a 1712 Fountainhall Decis. (1759) II. 361 Jus fuit fundatum, and the superveniency accresces. |