supervene

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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 Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

The question, what becomes of these philanthropic tradesmen after their ultimate impoverishment, which of course must speedily supervene, is a fruitful subject for the investigation of some inquisitive mind.

From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

That the young woman had expensive tastes he did not suppose, and he had great and not ungrounded confidence in his own power of repression of any taste not to his mind, should any supervene.

From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John

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

From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.