supervene Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb take place as an additional or unexpected development

WordNet

Su`per*vene" intransitive verb
Etymology
L. supervenire, superventum, to come over, to come upon; super over + venire to come. See Super-, and Come, and cf. Overcome.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Supervened ; present participle & verbal noun Supervening
Definitions
  1. To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.
    Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power. Bentley.
    A tyrany immediately supervened. Burke.

Webster 1913