1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. Gen. Coll. Disc. Virtuosi France iv. 19 A Thing begun and not perfected; yet design'd to be finished by the Supervening [Fr. l'arrivée] of the Form, and the interposing of Agents.

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion iv. 42 Bottles..being full of the liquor were firmly stopped before the supervening of the Cold.

1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iii. i. 87 To suppose it then, either to stand still, or to move irregularly..without the supervening of a New Divine Power: is to suppose the Author of it, not to be his Arts Master.

1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 902/1 Moveable rights may become heritable, by the supervening of an heritable security.

1842 Hierophant Aug. 53 The gradual ushering in and supervening of that blissful period upon the previously existing state of the church and the world.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 241 In the theory of Berkeley, the world, birth, death, [etc.]..are true, and not of such a nature, that they vanish away on the supervening of right apprehension.

1903 Clin. Jrnl. 21 290/1 She had her thyroid enlarged for twelve years before the supervening of any other symptoms of exophthalmic goitre.

1988 D. Polkinghorne Narr. Knowing & Human Sci. i. 2 The supervening of this new level on its component parts may engender in those parts..novel qualities.

1994 L. Trainor Brit. Imperialism & Austral. Nationalism iii. 28 With the supervening of other issues and the fall of the Stuart administration in October, the comment seemed justified.

1640 J. Mabbe tr. M. de Cervantes Exemplarie Novells 76 Her sudaine passion of being in doubt of knowing him might bee recompenced with the supervening joy of knowing him [Sp. sobreuiniesse la alegria de auerle conocido].

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xxiv. §2 The superveening Right..accresces without any new solemnities.

1740 T. Short Ess. Hist. Princ. Mineral Waters 272 If..the discharge [is] moderate, without any supervening Ulcer, the danger is small.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. iii. §71 He should afterwards have obtained a decree in his favour on a supervening title.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xxix. 408 A supervening haze.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 116 That west front is made up of..many unfinished and supervening designs.

1921 Workmen's Compensation Law Jrnl. 7 334 The supervening insanity of the claimant does not justify defendants in stopping payment of compensation.

1975 G. H. Hartman in M. H. Abrams Eng. Romantic Poets 127 The poet's initial memory still embraces it, but he is tempted to rest with the supervening memory as with a symbol.

1992 Mind 101 182 Taken one way the supervening social phenomena are ontologically distinct from the individualist phenomena upon which they supervene.