a. [ad. L. supervenient-, -ens, pr. pple. of supervenīre to SUPERVENE.] Supervening; coming upon something as an extraneous addition; coming on after (and in connection or contrast with) something else; occurring or appearing subsequently.
1594. Alex. 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, Lett. to Langton, 9 Jan., in Boswell. Some supervenient cause of discord may overpower 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.
