adˈvenient, a.
[ad. L. advenient-em pr. pple. of advenī-re: see advene.]
Coming (to anything) from without; additional, superadded; adventitious.
| 1594 Wounds of Civ. War iv. i. in Hazl. Dodsl. VII. 158 Old Marius will foresee advenient harms. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 336 These are the advenient and artificiall wayes of denigration. 1667 Boyle Orig. Form & Qual., The advenient Humane Soul becoming now the true Forme of the Humane Body. 1870 Smith Syn. & Antonyms, Future..Syn. Forthcoming, Coming, Advenient. 1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Sept. 596/2 There is in knowledge both an advenient physical influence from the thing and a projicient psychical reference to the thing. 1936 Nature 28 Mar. 522/1 Colour as experienced is..an indication..of the presence of specific chemical changes in the retina and the choroid under advenient electromagnetic influence. |