Supervenient

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Supervenient \Su`per*ven"ient\, a. [L. superveniens, p. pr.]
     Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming
     afterwards.
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           That branch of belief was in him supervenient to


           Christian practice.                      --Hammond.
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           Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for
           supervenient causes.                     --Z. Swift.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "supervenient":
     accessory, accidental, additional, adscititious, adventitious,
     appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, casual, circumstantial,
     collateral, contingent, extra, fortuitous, incidental, inessential,
     nonessential, secondary, subsidiary, superadded, superfluous,
     supplemental, supplementary, unessential