Verb: supervene ,soo-pu(r)'veen
- Take place as an additional or unexpected development
"The naturalist might try to meet this objection by holding that moral properties supervene necessarily on certain natural states"
Derived forms: supervened, supervenes, supervening
Type of: come about, fall out, go on, hap [archaic], happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
Encyclopedia: Supervene