Definition of Supervenient

Su`per`ven´ient
a.1.Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.
That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice.
- Hammond.
Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenient causes.
- Z. Swift.


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accessory, accidental, additional, adscititious, adventitious, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, casual, circumstantial, collateral, contingent, extra, fortuitous, incidental, inessential, nonessential, secondary, subsidiary, superadded, superfluous, supplemental, supplementary, unessential


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