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Definition of Subvened
1. subvene [v] - See also: subvene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subvened
Literary usage of Subvened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1804)
"to prove that the edifices of Rome were not subvened by the Goths and Vandals.
104 The historian Sallust, who usefully practiced the vices which he hai •o ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"... reflect rather on the subvened government under which this character had been
formed, th»u on the speculations of any real or pretended philosopher-. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1802)
"... that occasioned the death of the virtuous monarch > and that subvened even
the republic, desirous that France should have no kind of.government, ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... and no worm-brained mountebank of state, subvened to our distractions; when
the twisting of sand by foolish combinations was found a successless folly, ..."
5. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1890)
"... arrested at the death of Edward I., and mere disorganisation subvened till
the strong government of the Tudors rendered progress possible once more1. ..."
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