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Dictionary: Su·per·ven·ient

a.

[L. superveniens, p. pr.]
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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adjective

    Not part of the real or essential nature of a thing: adscititious, adventitious, incidental. See surface/depth.

 
 
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