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supervene

[soo-per-veen] / ˌsu pərˈvin /


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We trusted, therefore, that extremely lenient legislation would supervene, upon its very opposite.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School

If the Distemper rises to a violent Degree indeed, a Delirium and Convulsions supervene.

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

When the attack is more severe hypostatic congestion is very likely to supervene.

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

Whenever this Method has not been observed, and the Accidents described § 223 supervene, the Distemper must be treated like an Inflammation in its first State, and all must be done as directed § 225.

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

In some cases the symptoms of cerebral disturbance are greater in degree, and in these coma may soon supervene upon delirium.

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

As the disease advances, general debility supervenes, accompanied with a weakness of the hind extremities.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I have known many cases, in addition to those already given, where the parturient process was prolonged for hours in consequence of the animal's being milked, in whom fever supervened almost immediately afterwards.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

She had also laboured under a similar attack seven years before, which, like the present, supervened upon the birth of a child.

From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

Misgivings deepened as we drew near; alarm supervened.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

An awkward little silence supervened and once more Brouillard dragged his watch from its pocket.

From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde

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

Very soon after supper he had petitioned to be taken to bed, and then unpleasant if not serious symptoms had been no long time in supervening.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

This," said the professor of the healing art, "is a case of genuine nervous apoplexy, supervening on an undue determination of blood to the head, and a plethora of the vessels.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

And he began a commentary on fourteen of the above-mentioned moral odes, in the vulgar tongue, which, through his death supervening, is only completed for three....

From Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler

Hæmorrhages of the Nose, supervening in inflammatory Fevers, commonly prove a favourable Crisis; which Bleeding we should carefully avoid stopping; except it becomes excessive, and seems to threaten the Patient's Life.

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




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