Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Supervenient \Su`per*ven"ient\, a. [L. superveniens, p. pr.]
   Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming
   afterwards.

         That branch of belief was in him supervenient to
         Christian practice.                      --Hammond.

         Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for
         supervenient causes.                     --Z. Swift.