Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To supervene upon; come as an addition to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic, transitive To
supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
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Examples
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When lady Feng heard these words, her eyes got quite red, and after a time she at length exclaimed: “In the Heavens of a sudden come wind and rain; while with man, in a day and in a night, woe and weal survene!
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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When lady Feng heard these words, her eyes got quite red, and after a time she at length exclaimed: "In the Heavens of a sudden come wind and rain; while with man, in a day and in a night, woe and weal survene!
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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