supervention

English

Noun

supervention (countable and uncountable, plural superventions)

  1. The act of supervening
    • 1672, Robert Boyle, Origin and Virtues of Gems:
      in the solid substance of the stone; […] this compact and ponderous body was made stony, by the supervention of some petrescent liquor upon porous earth
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