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sequent, a. and n.|ˈsiːkwənt|
[a. OF. sequent, ad. L. sequent-em, pres. pple. of sequī to follow. Cf. Sp. siguiente, Pg. seguinte, seqüente, It. seguente, sequente.]
A. adj.
1. That follows or comes after.
†a. That one is about to say or mention; (the) following, ensuing. Obs.
a1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 810 And scho in hand ane letter had quhairon Hir charge scho red, quhais tennour is sequent. 1607Walter Diary (Camden) 15 There are extant books in print, the one by an eye-witness, to the sequent event. 1653Ld. Brouncker tr. Des Cartes' Compend. Mus. 37 Such as are set in the Sequent Figure. 1821Rouge et Noir 45 You'll find it in the sequent canto.
b. That succeeds or is subsequent in time or serial order. Now rare.
1601Shakes. All's Well v. iii. 197 Of six preceding Ancestors, that Iemme Confer'd by testament to 'th sequent issue Hath it beene owed and worne. a1643Ld. Falkland, etc. Infallibility (1646) 191 Miracles..creditably recorded from age to age, both in the Evangelists and other sequent Histories. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1649) 553 Priviledges..of which Lodovicus Pius was in Possession, and all the sequent Kings. 1651Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 79 What primitive, or sequent Church ever taught..such doctrine as this? 1667Milton P.L. xii. 165 There he dies, and leaves his Race Growing into a Nation, and now grown Suspected to a sequent king. a1763Shenstone Econ. ii. 256 Virtue then Requires the pruner's hand, the sequent stage It barely vegetates. 1867Emerson May-Day, etc., Wks. (Bohn) III. 439 Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakspeare's wit. 1873M. Collins Squire Silchester ix, The Rector..enjoyed his sequent glass of port. 1887Proctor Chance & Luck 133 From his sequent remarks it appears that he had very imperfect information.
c. That follows or moves in the train of another. rare.
1612Two Noble Kinsmen i. ii. 65 Either I am The fore⁓horse in the Teame, or I am none That draw i'th sequent trace. 1805–6Cary Dante, Inf. v. 98 The coast, where Po descends To rest in ocean with his sequent streams. 1874Ruskin Val D'Arno (1886) 229 The treatment of light and shadow in the figures of the Christ and sequent angels.
2. That follows as a result or a logical conclusion. Const. to, on, upon.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. ii. 56 Indeed your O Lord sir, is very sequent to your whipping. 1603― Meas. for M. v. i. 378 Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, Is all the grace I beg. 1605― Lear i. ii. 115 The sequent effects. 1796G. L. Way tr. Le Grand's Fabliaux I. 52 Her son's arrest, and sequent punishment. 1853Zoologist II. 3871 Some of the inferences drawn are not sequent on the premises. 1878P. Bayne Pur. Rev. iii. 82 The strictly sequent corollary to the Puritan view of Antichrist.
3. Following one another in succession or in a series; successive.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. ii. 41 The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers This very night, at one anothers heeles. 1870Proctor Other Worlds xiii. 323 The never-ending chain of sequent events. 1877E. R. Conder Basis Faith ii. 49 Every harmonious combination of events, sequent or coexistent. 1881J. Sully Illusions 163 A very similar kind of unification takes place between sequent images under the form of transformation. 1884[Laurie] Metaph. Nova & Vet. 115 The series of sequent movements which in a dog ends with the sensation of pain.
b. Characterized by continuous succession; forming an unbroken series or course; consecutive.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. lx, Like as the waues make towards the pibled shore, So..our minuites..In sequent toile all forwards do contend. 1688Holme Armoury iii. xix. (Roxb.) 188/2 A file, is a sequent number of men standing one behind an other. 1860Reade 8th Commandm. 318 A masterpiece of construction and arrangement, sequent, articulate, clear, pointed. 1872Ruskin Aratra Pentelici 114 Perfectly arranged disposition of counted masses in a sequent order. 1875Blackmore Alice Lorraine III. viii. 122 The sweet face, more and more lit up with sequent thought. 1898Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 58 Chamber to chamber of her sequent brain Gives answer.
4. That forms a sequel or continuation.
1833I. Taylor Fanat. Pref. 4 The nearly connected and sequent subject.
B. n.
†1. A follower, attendant. Obs. rare—1.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. ii. 142 And here he hath framed a Letter to a sequent of the stranger Queenes.
†2. A unit of a sequence; esp. of playing-cards. Cf. sequence n. 4. Obs.
1620E. Blount Horæ Subs. 49 There bee others that delight in figures, and their words fall in, one after another like sequents. 1730Swift Game Traffic Wks. 1743 VIII. 169 Dame Floyd looks out in grave suspence For pair⁓royals and sequents. 1734Seymour Compl. Gamester i. (ed. 5) 93 (Picquet) Each is to examine what Cards he has in his Hands of the same Suit, which are Sequents.
†3. The following narrative; the subsequent course of events; the sequel. Obs. rare—2.
1655Terry Voy. E. India i. 36 A brave resolute man, as the sequent will demonstrate. a1661Fuller Worthies, Linc. (1662) ii. 164 Elias de Trekingham, was born..at a Village so called, as by the sequents will appear.
4. That which follows in order (of arrangement, time, etc.).
1833W. Wirt in J. P. Kennedy Life (1872) II. xx. 353 [The ‘De Senectute’ is] infinitely superior, I think, to that ‘De Amicitia’ which..follows it,—or even to the..‘Somnium Scipionis’, usually the sequent of the two former. 1893Fairbairn Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. ii. §3. 55 The later [age] is the sequent in time but not in thought of the earlier.
5. That which follows naturally as a result; the consequent of an antecedent; also in logical sequent.
1838Blackw. Mag. XLIII. 200 Conscience, morality, and responsibility,..may be shown to be based in consciousness, and necessary sequents thereof. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iv. §5. 193 No human thought can deal with them..as necessary antecedents or sequents in any logical deductions. 1884[Laurie] Metaph. Nova & Vet. 119 The relation of antecedents and sequents. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. (1889) I. 464 Assuming an interval between the two sequents (physical and mental) upon the molecular change. 1891Speaker 2 May 528/1 Universal suffrage brought into France in 1789 its logical sequent; the right of the voter carried with it the duty of the defender. |