In that supervention which is so readily accepted as a divine warning, when the imagination is morbidly excited, and when the conscience, though lulled asleep for a moment, is still asleep so lightly that the sigh of a breeze, the fall of a leaf, can awake it with a start of terror, I took the voice for that of my guardian angel. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
This was occasionally accentuated by the supervention of myelitis. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The beneficent action of Apis, in intermittent fever, is still increased by the fact that it prevents the supervention of typhus, disorganizations of the spleen, dropsy, china-cachexia. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
In the most marked forms of the affection heredity plays but little part, owing to the early supervention of imbecility and helplessness, and it is a greater factor in the better classes of society than in the proletariat. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
If these results should be confirmed by further experience, we would have attained additional means of preventing the supervention of whooping-cough in measles; a triumph of art and science which should elicit our warmest gratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
The impressive effect of these seizures is heightened by their supervention in the midst of religious exercises, and by the contagious and sympathetic influence through which their spread is accelerated among the more excitable temperaments and weaker members of large congregations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
The effect of damage in producing chronic disease may not appear at once, for the great power of adaptation of organs and the exercise of reserve force may for a time render the damage imperceptible; when, however, age or the supervention of further injury diminishes the power of adaptation the condition of disease becomes evident. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Both Dewey and Eliot are suggesting that without experiment in art and literature, the "supervention of novelty," the great works of the past merely ossify into a "tradition" that no longer inspires artists and writers to, in effect, outdo the "existing monuments," to bring those monuments into active communication with the present. From Wordnik.com. [John Dewey's *Art as Experience*] Reference
If the reactive force of the organism was still sufficient, the medicine succeeded very speedily in preventing the supervention of the typhoid stage, in changing the fever-type from a remittent or even continuous to an intermittent type, during which the convalescence of the patient, aided by a suitable diet, was more and more firmly established and generally completely secured after the lapse of a week. From Wordnik.com. [Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent] Reference
Continuance of Day under this, and supervention of Night under this Cycle, produce. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
It is the creation of a constitutional condition that requires the supervention of legislative power in the exercise of legislative discretion to give it effect. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
The remedy should not be set aside as long as there are signs of improvement, unless the supervention of stomachic, intestinal or other disturbance demand its discontinuance. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Now this hypothesis is as directly opposed to my view as supervention is to evolution, inasmuch as I hold the organized body itself, in all its marvellous contexture, to be the PRODUCT and representant of the power which is here supposed to have supervened to it. From Wordnik.com. [Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.] Reference
Among my occasional causes of failure have been the prior death and decomposition of the fetus, with the extrication of gas and overdistention of the womb, and the supervention of inflammation and inflammatory exudation around the neck of the womb, which hinders untwisting. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new. From Wordnik.com. [Tradition and the Individual Talent] Reference
They recommend that all observations, "likely to cause pain and suffering shall be conducted under adequate anaesthetics, skilfully and humanely administered, or if the nature of the investigation render this impracticable, then, that on the supervention of real or obvious suffering the animal shall be forthwith painlessly killed.". From Wordnik.com. [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference
Still it is evident that, from their perfect association, the particles are in the most favourable state possible for combination upon the supervention of any determining cause, such either as the negative action of the platina in suppressing or annihilating, as it were, their elasticity on its side; or the positive action of the metal in condensing them against its surface by an attractive force; or the influence of both together. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1] Reference
6 For sustained treatment of Frankfurt-School analyses of the Baudelairean counter-tradition in modern lyric, and for Benjamin’s, Brecht’s, and Adorno’s surprising later indications that lyric aura might have a renewed, progressive role to play in contemporary poetry and theory (after lyric's apparent supervention by mechanical-technical reproduction or reproducibility), see Kaufman, "Aura, Still." close window. From Wordnik.com. [Notes, "Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics", Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics] Reference
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