supervention
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“The existing order is complete,” Eliot explains, “before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
Or the Subjective is taken as primary, and then we have to account for the supervention of the objective, which spiritual philosophy supposes.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
As regards the life of the Post-Pliocene period, we have, in the first place, to notice the effect produced throughout the Page 345 northern hemisphere by the gradual supervention of the Glacial period.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne
If these results should be confirmed by further experience, we would have attained additional means of preventing the supervention of whooping-cough in measles; a triumph of art and science which should elicit our warmest gratitude.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.
—Continuance of Day under this, and supervention of Night under this Cycle, produce: —A static, but weakening period until: —165, the year in which a new Eastern Han Day should begin.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
