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supervene

[soo-per-veen] / ˌsu pərˈvin /


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Diarrhoea may also be present at this time, or may not supervene until later.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

She waited patiently for a pause to supervene.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

You cannot absolve psychology as if it stood independent of ethics or religion, nor can aesthetic considerations merely supervene on moral.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

How and whence to these thoughts, these strong probabilities, the ascertaining vision, the intuitive knowledge may finally supervene, can be learned only by the fact.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

But he left the house holding a very strong belief that meningitis would supervene.

From A Soldier's Son by Maude M. Butler

Mr Blackwell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that animals should be "stunned at the time of death", which would render them "insensible to pain until death supervenes".

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2014

For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes it also happens that both these Diseases are combined at once in the same Person; and that one supervenes before the other has finished its Course, which makes the Case very perilous.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long before I reached the camp the cheering and all sounds of exultation had ceased, and a strange stillness supervened.

From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

There had been a slight hæmorrhage, but a sudden collapse had supervened.

From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by M. Beer

But a change for the worst supervened, and after four days of intense suffering, sweetly and patiently borne, Mary died, and Godwin was again alone.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

Diarrhoea supervened and the patient died about midnight.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2017

The incessant drenching from sea and sky to which they had been so long subjected, chilled their slackened circulation to such a degree, that death from torpor seemed rapidly supervening.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer

The wax dropped from his fingers and in the supervening darkness a numb fright gripped him by the throat.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

In acute cases the disease may run a very rapid course, coma frequently supervening a few days before death, but chronic cases may live for ten to twenty years.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

There she died last Friday evening, having improved in her cardiac symptoms, but pneumonia supervening a week ago.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James


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