单词 | supervenient |
释义 | supervenientadj. 1. a. Coming after (and in connection with or as a consequence of) an existing situation, condition, etc.; subsequent; occurring as a change or addition.Sometimes spec. (Theology): occurring subsequent to human action; opposed to prevenient adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent followingOE afterOE nextOE suinga1325 suant1422 succedentc1450 after-comingc1454 secondary1471 subsequent1472 succeeding1561 supervenient1565 subsequent1568 consequent1581 proceeding1592 ensuing1604 subsecutive1611 sequenta1616 insequentc1620 postliminious1625 sequel1632 postnate1638 supervening1640 descending1642 forward1643 postventional1645 yondersa1650 succrescent1653 pedissequous1657 subsequential1657 assequent1659 post-nated1659 posthume1662 posterious1672 survenient1677 succedent1688 postliminous1714 first1746 sequelled1805 postliminary1826 thereafter1830 descensive1882 akoluthic1889 1565 MS Edinb. Univ. La. III. 388a f. 20, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Diligence wes done..vpone nane vtherwayes les gif it be vpone ane supervenient caus as newlingis cumit to the knawlege of the persewar. 1594 A. Hume Treat. Conscience To Rdr. sig. A2v By reason of the cold supervenient winter, I was tyed to the bed. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xv. 135 If then pure water be putt vpon that chalke, the subtilest dry partes of it, do easily ioyne to the superuenient moysture. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iii. 487 He [sc. God] certainly gave him such a power as might be brought into act without the necessity of any supervenient act of grace. 1678 J. Lauder in Decisions Lords of Council (1759) I. 11 The supervenient engagements and obligations to God which lye specially upon us of the Church of Scotland, by our solemnly sworn covenants. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. vi. 429 Some other supervenient, additional Insects, laid in after the Apple was grown. 1758 S. Johnson Let. 9 Jan. (1992) I. 171 Some supervenient cause of discord may overpower this original amity. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 412 It is..reasonable..to restrain the terms of a promise,..where supervenient circumstances indicate an exception which he would infallibly have made. 1865 A. J. Cooley Two Months in London Hosp. vi. 55 Extreme physical exhaustion, mental prostration, and a supervenient malignant disease. 1943 Decisions Comptroller Gen. U.S. 22 318 A divorce..is granted for some supervenient cause, that is, some cause arising subsequent to the marriage. 1997 P. A. Redpath Wisdom's Odyssey ii. 39 Natural reason or natural ability can exercise their own natural acts without the addition of sanctifying grace, and..people possess the free will either to cooperate with or reject supervenient grace. b. With on, upon, or to the preceding condition, occurrence, etc. ΚΠ 1644 S. Rutherford Due Right of Presbyteries x. 313 I thinke the atrocity of incest, parricide and the like deserveth excommunication, though no contumacy be supervenient to such crimes. 1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 71 A tax supervenient to a mans other expences. 1758 W. Hawkins Tracts in Divinity I. 40 It implies..Contradiction, that there should be any Mysteries in the Divine Nature capable of, and cognisable only by, an especial Revelation supervenient to the Light of Human Reason. 1797 M. Underwood Treat. Disorders Childhood I. 66 This dreadful complaint,..evidently supervenient to disorders of the first-passages. 1831 T. Cooper tr. F. Broussais On Irritation & Insanity ii. i. 185 The insanity so often supervenient upon child-birth, does not arise from one organ only. 1891 National Rev. May It was never pronounced for any cause, we are told, supervenient to the marriage, not even for adultery. 1915 W. Winter Shakespeare on Stage iv. 402 The King's wildness in what are called ‘the mad scenes’, is supervenient on a long anterior condition. 1951 Jrnl. Relig. 31 50/2 His activity is prevenient and supervenient upon all other activity. 1992 T. J. Reiss Meaning of Lit. i. 16 The courtly idea of writing was that of recreation, a gracious trope supervenient to the business of power. 2. Scots Law. Of a right or title: that is acquired by a disponer (disponer n. 2) after the transference of the property in question, and therefore considered legally as belonging to the party to which the property was transferred. Cf. superveniency n. 2. Now historical and rare.In quot. 1644 in allusive use. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adjective] > acquired subsequently by disponer supervenient1644 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 55 What he had before by hypostaticall union onely, now he had it by another supervenient Right of merit. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xxiv. §2 A supervenient Right..was found to accresce to the Earl of Lauderdail. 1705 W. Forbes Treat. Church-lands & Tithes ii. iii. 307 Supervenient Rights acquired either by Statute or private Transaction accrescunt successori. 1824 J. Ivory Erskine's Inst. Law Scotl. (new ed.) I. ii. vii. 393 The supervening right is, by a fiction of law, considered to have been in the disponer at the date of the transmission. 1838 A. Duff Treat. Deeds & Forms 227 That maxim [sc. jus superveniens auctoria accrescit succesori],..although originally applied to supervenient rights, has since the time of Stair been extended to supervenient titles. 1903 Sc. Rev. Rep. Court of Session 1865–6 3rd Ser. 4 680 Stair and Erskine here speak of a supervenient right, and not of the mere completion of a previously existing inchoate title. 3. Philosophy. Of a property or quality: dependent on another for its existence. Also with on. See supervene v. 3. ΚΠ 1952 R. M. Hare Lang. Morals v. 80 One of the most characteristic features of value-words..is..sometimes described by saying that ‘good’ and other such words are the names of ‘supervenient’ or ‘consequential’ properties. 1970 D. Davidson in L. Foster & J. W. Swanson Experience & Theory 88 The view that mental characteristics are in some sense dependent, or supervenient, on physical characteristics. 1999 Ethical Theory & Moral Pract. 2 200 I want to explore the idea that one fundamental metaphysical feature of moral properties is that they are supervenient but irreducible. 2003 J. Kim in N. Campbell Mental Causation & Metaphysics of Mind xxii. 219 The aesthetic properties of a work of art have been claimed to be supervenient on its physical properties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1565 |
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