Defn: To supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power.
Within forty-eight hours all persons interested had mysteriously assumed that Mr. Gilman and Audrey were coupled together by fate and that a delicious crisis was about to supervene in their earthly progress.
Sluggishness and slowness of movement are seen to supervene fairly quickly; reflex actions are still exhibited, but the animal is no longer able to jump.
Hæmorrhages from the mucous membranes, and sanguineous suffusions into the serous cavities, such as the pleura or pericardium, may supervene more or less slowly.
When it does supervene it usually affects the upper parts of both ears, and may then eat its way down until, in extreme cases, it has entirely consumed two-thirds of the tissue of both ears.
The epileptiform habit does not supervene until some considerable time after the operation; it is then transitory, lasting only for some weeks or months.
I find that the haematoma and dry gangrene may supervene either several weeks after the operation, or at any subsequent time up to many months.
Its self-subsistence is derived from the nature of its form, which does not superveneto the things subsisting, but gives actual existence to the matter and makes it subsist as an individual.
But accidents which supervene to the subject, have their special idea.
If you affirm anything, for example that A is, and simply leave the matter thus, you leave it at the mercy of any one who may supervene and say 'not A, but B is.
Tetany, as evidenced by the occurrence of cramp-like contractions of the thumb and fingers, may supervene within a few days of the operation if one or more of the para-thyreoids have been inadvertently removed.
The growth of the limb is impaired, and contracture deformities may supervene (Fig.
Mastoid pain and tenderness are indicative of inflammation in the antrum or cells, and when these symptoms supervene in the course of a chronic middle-ear suppuration, they should always be regarded as of grave import.
In some cases alarming suffocative attacks occasionally supervene during sleep, but the difficulty in breathing disappears as soon as the child is wakened.
In all the changes of structure which regularlysupervene during old age, we see the effects of deteriorated growth, and not of true development.
In all the changes of structure which regularly supervene during old age, we probably see the effects of deteriorated growth, and not of true development.
There is of course no reason to deprecate the use of vocables, or of any other material agency, to expedite affairs; but an art of speech, if it is to add any ultimate charm to life, has to supervene upon a mere code of signals.
Wealth, safety, variety of pursuits, are all requisite if memory and purpose are to be trained increasingly, and if a steadfast art of living is to supervene upon instinct and dream.
Rational adjustments to truth and to benefitsupervene only occasionally and at a higher level.
The subjective therefore must supervene to the objective.
It assumes the objective or unconscious nature as the first, and as therefore to explain how intelligence can supervene to it, or how itself can grow into intelligence.
It is to be presumed that no mutation will supervene so long as the conditions of life do not vary materially from what they have been during the previous uneventful life-history of the type.
There remains the question whether the feelings of approval and disapproval, which supervene on our moral judgments, admit of any explanation, or whether they are to be regarded as ultimate facts of our mental constitution.
A large carbuncle is a grave disease, especially in a weakly person suffering from diabetes or chronic alcoholism; we have on several occasions seen diabetic coma supervene and the patient die without recovering consciousness.
Tuberculous infection may supervene in glands that are already enlarged as a result of chronic septic irritation.
It may be implied from this statement that the syndyasmian family had begun tosupervene upon the punaluan.
Occasionally the inguinal lymphatic glands (in the groin) undergo suppuration, and pyemia may supervene and prove fatal.
So, again, religion does not supervene upon an already existing political and moral system and invest it with an additional sanction.
You cannot absolve psychology as if it stood independent of ethics or religion, nor can aesthetic considerations merely supervene on moral.
It may supervene on polypous tumours, particularly of the antrum; and of this I have seen several instances.
Reduction of such displacement is exceedingly difficult at any period, and becomes almost impossible when inflammatory action is allowed to supervene previously to attempts being made.
The pains are remittent, supervene at night, and subside in the morning.
In long-continued disease, particularly internal, the hectic occasionally occurs before the existence of suppuration is indicated; and it does not always supervene upon suppuration, even though extensive.
There is seldom throbbing, or heat, or swelling; though, after long continuance of the diseased state, these may supervene to a slight extent.
These morbid alterations may take place at once—that is, the swelling may be from the first malignant—or they may supervene on tumours originally simple and benign.
The patient may perish from the bleeding, either instantly or after some time; or inflammation and its consequences supervene in the violent form, and destroy him at a more remote period.
The application of acrid matters, as cantharides, to the skin, will occasion unpleasant effects in the urinary organs; and these unpleasant and distressing symptoms often supervene upon disappearance of cutaneous diseases.
It may either follow the injury instantaneously, orsupervene some time thereafter.
For an action does not acquire a new species through being repeated or prolonged, unless by chance something supervene in the repeated or prolonged act to change its species, e.
In this case our theory regards any morphological changes which afterwards supervene as due to the independent variability which will sooner or later arise under the physiological isolation thus secured.
In the margin is written> Aborted organs show, perhaps, something about period which changes supervene in embryo.
Thus there is no power to change the course of the arteries, as long as they nourish the foetus; it is the selection of slight changes which supervene at any time during of life.
We are indeed taught that in exceptional cases there may ultimately supervene such an extraordinary elevation of soul that no trouble is too great, and no appeal is unheard.
Death seems to supervene by reason of its utility to the species: continued life of an individual after a certain stage being comparatively useless.
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