Meanings of supervene upon in English

A synthetic vision of personality must supervene upon the dissection, and the emotional interest in character and action must subsist alongside of the intellectual interest.

A certain practical sobriety supervenes upon subsequent affairs of the heart.

Gnosticism has supervened upon the rudimental childhood of spiritual truth.

Another incident supervened upon the munitions outcry; Lord Fisher resigned from the Admiralty on 15 May.

They have gloried that there supervened upon this paganism the religious revival which the Reformation was.

Guy Waring, Mrs. Clifford repeated at last, breaking the awkward silence that supervened upon the group.

Among the Greeks and Romans political society supervened upon gentile society, but not until civilization had commenced.

Under the influence of a typhus fever, supervening upon gout, he had begun to decompose while yet alive.

The aesthetic interest in the work as living supervenes upon the interest in it as a mere reminder of life.

And this value we should be able to discover by seeking the difference which supervenes upon experience through expression of this kind.

A first shift in aspiration, a capacity for radical altruism, thus supervenes upon the lust to live and accompanies parental and social interests.

Supervening upon her ordinary cardiac attack after supper, Mrs. Maldon had had, in the night, an embolus in one artery of the brain.

Then beauty supervenes upon mere utility, and a value for contemplation grows out of and, for the moment, supplants a value in use.

Pneumonia, supervening upon influenza-thatis what the doctors called it; but it was really a complication of disorders, some of them of long standing.