supervening

Verb

supervene (third-person singular simple present supervenes, present participle supervening, simple past and past participle supervened)

1. (intransitive) To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast.
   • The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165
2. To supersede.
3. To be dependent on an earlier event.
4. To be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation.
   • For instance, an idiosyncratic necessitist might claim that even if a river were not spatiotemporally located, it would still be ugly or beautiful in ways that do not supervene on anything else.2018, Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, Mark McCullagh, editors, Williamson on Modality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123
5. To occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation.
   • The best work was after Bishops Stortford, as we attained 55 m.p.h. after Stansted, and were going well up the short bank when the Elsenham permanent way check supervened.1953 October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 688