Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SU-PER-VENE
SU-PER-VA-CA'NE-OUS-NESSSU-PER-VEN-I-ENT
SU-PER-VENE, v.i. [L. supervenio; super and venio.]
- To come upon as something extraneous. Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter, unless impressed by divine power. Bentley.
- To come upon; to happen to.
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