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advene, v.|ædˈviːn| [a. MFr. adven-ir, common spelling of avenir:—L. advenīre to come to, f. ad to + venīre to come.] 1. intr. To accede or come (to); to be superadded, as part of something, though not essential.
1606Owen Epigr. (Nares) Venus (saith one) spontan'ous doth advene Unt' all things. 1651N. Biggs New Dispens. §229. 166 But a momentary help is that, which advenes by phlebotomy. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 148 The accidental of any act, is said to be whatever advenes to the act itself already substantiated. 1820–30Coleridge Rem. (1836) III. 19 Where no act of the will advenes as a co-efficient. 2. trans. To come to, reach.
1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. Introd. §25 The extremity whereof I have not arrived at or advened. |