supervenient, a.
(s(j)uːpəˈviːnɪənt)
[ad. L. supervenient-, -ens, pr. pple. of supervenīre to supervene.]
Supervening; coming upon something as an extraneous addition; coming on after (and in connexion or contrast with) something else; occurring or appearing subsequently.
| 1594 A. Hume Treat. Consc. Pref. 46 By reason of the cold supervenient winter, I was tyed to the bed. 1628 Wotton in Reliq. (1672) 557 It shall teach me to reserve myself..for such supervenient temptations. 1644 Digby Nat. Bodies xv. 135 If then pure water be putt vpon that chalke, the subtilest dry partes of it, do easily ioyne to the superuenient moysture. 1662 Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. iii. §7 The necessity of any supervenient act of grace. 1711 in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874) 137 According to the time prescribed be the Act of Parliament or be any supervenient law. 1713 Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. vi. 429 Some other supervenient, additional Insects, laid in after the Apple was grown. 1758 Johnson Let. to Langton 9 Jan. in Boswell, Some supervenient cause of discord may over⁓power this original amity. 1839 Hallam Lit. Eur. iii. iv. §114 III. 412 It is..reasonable..to restrain the terms of a promise, where they clearly appear to go beyond the design of the promiser, or where supervenient circumstances indicate an exception which he would infallibly have made. 1875 E. White Life in Christ v. xxxi. (1878) 533 The whole eternal life to follow will be a result not of primeval law but of supervenient grace. |
b. Const. to (that which precedes).
| 1654 Hammond Fundamentals ii. §9. 22 That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practise. 1662 Petty Taxes 71 A tax supervenient to a mans other expences. c 1690 Inform. for Sir T. Dalziel of Binns 1 Albeit the Debt now acclaimed was by a Law supervenient to the Disposition. |
c. Sc. Law. Of a right: That is acquired by the disponer subsequently to the act of transmission. Also allusively.
| 1644 Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings 55 What he had before by hypostaticall union onely, now he had it by another supervenient Right of merit. 1681 Stair Inst. Law Scot. ii. xxiv. §2 A supervenient Right..was found to accresce to the Earl of Lauderdail. |