Obs. rare. [Formed as prec.: see -ENCY.] = prec.
1647. M. Hudson, Div. Right Govt., Introd. p. viii. Through whose superveniencie the meanest gifts and blessings of nature doe become sufficient to make a man Eternally happy.
1659. Gentl. Calling, viii. § 16. The more moderate pains become insensible by the superveniency of the more acute.
b. Sc. Law. The fact or condition of being supervenient: said of a right.
1681. Stair, Inst. Law Scot., II. xxvii. 136. If they should not be entered before the superveniency.
a. 1712. Fountainhall, Decis. (1759), II. 361. Jus fuit fundatum, and the superveniency accresces.
