SUPERVE'NIENT, adjective Coming upon as something additional or extraneous.
That branch of belief was in him supervenient to christian practice.
Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.