Definition of "advene" [ad•vene]

• To accede or to come to; to be superadded to, to be added to something or become a part of it, though inessential. (verb)

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• "Within the last 19 years, it had risen to within one-third of the total of the company's trade: this too, notwithstanding it was a trade not carried on by those interested in its extension, but ntthef through the medium of an advene commerce."