Christian life, not directly, but accidentally, as it were, that is to say, as remedies againstsupervening defects.
Deeds done in charity are not in themselves deadened, as explained above, but only with regard to a supervening impediment on the part of the man who does them.
That they fail in their efficacy to bring the man, who did them, to eternal life, is due to the impediment of the supervening sin whereby he is become unworthy of eternal life.
This mystical detachment, supervening on the dogged old Jewish optimism, gave Christianity a double aspect, and had some curious consequence in later times.
Or rather, perhaps, reason is a supervening instinct by which all other instincts are interpreted, just as the sensus communis or transcendental unity of psychology is a faculty by which all perceptions are brought face to face and compared.
Absorption in a supervening function is mistaken for comprehension of all fact, and this inevitably, since all consciousness of particular facts and of their values is then submerged in the torrent of cerebral excitement.
It will be seen that this narrative is thoroughly in accordance with previous indications of a state of posthumous bewilderment supervening before the spirit has adjusted its perceptions to the new environment.
In aphasia, for instance, we can watch with instruction special difficulties of utterance, supervening on special injuries to the brain.
By thesesupervening agencies, the primeval Chaos was modified and regulated, to a greater or less extent.
In the Hesiodic and other legends respecting anthropogony we find at least a happy commencement, and the deterioration gradually supervening after it.
In cases of slighter injury, retention may occur on account of the inflammatory swelling of the partssupervening secondarily.
The disease was of twelve months’ duration, and was attributable to rheumatic inflammation superveningupon sprain.
For if the pleasure of virtuous activity is a superveningend beyond the activity, it becomes a supervening end beyond the happiness of virtuous activity, which thus ceases to be the final end.
Aristotle, or some Aristotelian, afterwards said that it is a supervening end completing an activity (E.
Matter is the potential, imperfect, inchoate, which the supervening Form actualizes into the perfect and complete; a transition from half-reality to entire reality or act.
The supervening Nous presupposes and depends upon what has been thus treasured up by experience.
Religion is poetry become the guide of life, poetry substituted for science or supervening upon it as an approach to the highest reality.
Cases of Meningitis in Children who had been suckled an undue length of time, supervening upon other complaints.
Sloggat, aged thirteen months, died of Meningitis supervening upon Pneumonia--suckled until the time of its death.
Maria Hughes, aged two years, admitted for Convulsions supervening upon Hooping-cough--suckled one year three months.
Footnote 9: For an excellent illustration of slate-color of chronic inflammation, with supervening acute inflammation and hemorrhagic patches, see Carswell, Path.
Ewart[9] recommends ipecacuanha in every form and type of acute dysentery, as well as in the acute attacks supervening upon chronic cases.
Gangrene sometimes occurs as a result of intense phlegmonous oesophagitis, but this is far more rare than the gangrene supervening after injuries by caustic substances.
Previous attacks of hepatic colic, and the symptoms of occlusion supervening on the last, are highly significant of calculous occlusion.
The doctor imagined it the speech of a man whom previous poverty and suddenly supervening wealth had made penurious.
And since besides the essential perfection which a being has by virtue of its substantial form it may have accidental perfections by reason of supervening accidental forms, these, too, are formal causes.
Now it is to be observed that natural inclinations are the principles of all supervening inclinations, as stated above (I, Q.
Even in natural things power remains inactive on account of a supervening obstacle, for instance the act of sight ceases through an affliction of the eye.
We have indirect evidence of this in many variations and diseases superveningduring so-called growth at a particular period, and being inherited at a corresponding period.
A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening on a copious discharge of blood is bad.
Such are the following very acute observations: 'Spasm supervening on a wound is fatal.
The appearance of Long Tom, supervening on a reduction on the daily rations, caused a panic among the civilians.
The capture of the hills supervening on the bad news from Paardeberg shattered the Boer Armies in Natal.
Mostert's Hoek supervening on Stormberg ended the career of a most gallant, energetic, and enthusiastic soldier.
A panic among the horses which threw the camp into confusion, supervening on an unexpected attack while the dawn had scarcely shown above the Magaliesberg, was soon followed by a cry that the position had been turned.
And such is matter, which my its nature is ever averse from the superveningirradiations of form.
Just so, the Jews had conceived salvation as a revival of their national existence and greatness, to be brought about by the patience and fidelity of the elect, with tremendous miracles supervening to reward these virtues.
This insight is the higher reason, the divine love, supervening to save him.
Supervening upon her ordinary cardiac attack after supper, Mrs. Maldon had had, in the night, an embolus in one artery of the brain.
She had completely recovered from the hysteria caused by old Batchgrew's attack, and was, indeed, in the supervening calm, very much ashamed of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supervening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
