supervene

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUPERVE'NE, verb intransitive [Latin supervenio; super and venio.] 1. To come upon as something extraneous. Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter, unless impressed by divine power. 2. To come upon; to happen to.
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