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Definition of Supervene upon
1. Verb. Take the place or move into the position of. "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
Related verbs: Replace, Put Back, Replace
Specialized synonyms: Deputise, Deputize, Step In, Substitute, Displace, Preempt, Usurp, Oust
Generic synonyms: Come After, Follow, Succeed
Derivative terms: Replacement, Replacement, Replacement, Replacing, Supersedure, Supersession, Supplanter, Supplanting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supervene Upon
Literary usage of Supervene upon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: A Handbook for Students and by Theodor Billroth (1878)
"General Incidental Diseases which may supervene upon Wounds and other Inflammation
Nests. The local, incidental wound-diseases hitherto described are always ..."
2. The Clinical Journal (1906)
"2) I have set forth, as you will have observed, only the events which supervene
upon a single inoculation. Let me now, seeing that we have in serum therapy ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"(rf) The Symptoms which supervene upon Inoculation.—The character and the severity
of the train of symptoms which supervene upon inoculation stand in ..."
4. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"To say, then, that the fully conceived conditions of a phenomenon still fall
short of its reality,—that sensation must supervene upon them in order to ..."
5. The Maryland Medical Recorder by Horatio Gates Jameson (1829)
"These are all cases referable to wounds—to them we can add, that we have three
times seen the disease supervene upon kindly suppurating wounds; ..."
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