Ob-vĕn'tion, n.

(ob-vĕn'shun), n. [Lat. obventio, from obvenire, to come before or in the way of, to befall, from prefix ob and venire, to come; Fr. obvention, Sp. obvencion.] The act of happening incidentally; that which happens not regularly, but incidentally; something occasional. [Obs.] “Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualties and obventions.” Fuller.