sequentadj.n.

/ˈsiːkwənt/

Etymology: < Old French sequent, < Latin sequent-em, present participle of sequī to follow. Compare Spanish siguiente, Portuguese seguinte, seqüente, Italian seguente, sequente.

A. adj.

1. That follows or comes after.

†a. That one is about to say or mention; (the) following, ensuing. Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adjective]

corollaryc1449

consequent1509

resulting?a1560

sequent1575

pursuant1593

following1594

ensuing1604

eventual1607

attendant1617

emergentc1619

resultant1639

resultative1645

consecutive1647

reflexed1653

redundant1654

reflex1654

consequential1655

resultive1655

attending1682

propter hoc1889

ensuant1897

sequential1899

pursuivant1941

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > that which follows (in a book, etc.)

following1340

underwritten1389

underfollowing14..

sequent1575

under-mentioned1640

below-mentioned1665

below1822

underhanded1884

postludial1935

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 15^v And scho in hand ane letter had quhairon: Hir charge scho red, quhais tennour is sequent.

1607 W. Yonge Diary Oct. (1848) 15 There are extant books in print, the one by an eye-witness, to the sequent (following) event.

1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick 37 Such as are set in the Sequent Figure.

1821 Rouge et Noir 45 You'll find it in the sequent canto.

b. That succeeds or is subsequent in time or serial order. Now rare.

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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent

followingOE

afterOE

nextOE

suinga1325

suant1422

succedentc1450

after-comingc1454

secondary1471

subsequent1472

succeeding1561

supervenient1565

subsequent1568

consequent1581

proceeding1592

ensuing1604

subsecutive1611

sequenta1616

insequentc1620

postliminious1625

sequel1632

postnate1638

supervening1640

descending1642

forward1643

postventional1645

yondersa1650

succrescent1653

pedissequous1657

subsequential1657

assequent1659

post-nated1659

posthume1662

posterious1672

survenient1677

succedent1688

postliminous1714

first1746

sequelled1805

postliminary1826

thereafter1830

descensive1882

akoluthic1889

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 200 Of sixe preceding Ancestors, that Iemme Confer'd by testament to'th sequent issue Hath it beene owed and worne.

1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 191 Miracles..creditably recorded from age to age, both in the Evangelists and other sequent Histories.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 553 Priviledges..of which Lodovicus Pius was in Possession, and all the sequent Kings.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 79 What primitive, or sequent Church ever taught..such doctrine as this?

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 165 There he dies, and leaves his Race Growing into a Nation, and now grown Suspected to a sequent King.

a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy i, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 294 Virtue then Requires the pruner's hand; the sequent stage, It barely vegetates.

1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 100 Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakspeare's wit.

1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester ix The Rector..enjoyed his sequent glass of port.

1887 R. A. Proctor 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [adjective]

following1546

sequenta1625

a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) i. ii. 60 Either I am The fore-horse in the Teame, or I am none That draw i'th sequent trace.

1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno v. 98 The coast, where Po descends To rest in ocean with his sequent streams.

1874 J. Ruskin Val D'Arno App., in Wks. IX. 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.

ΚΠ

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 106 The sequent effects.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 370 Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, Is all the grace I beg.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. ii. 51 Indeed your O Lord sir, is very sequent to your whipping.

1796 G. L. Way tr. P. J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy Fabliaux I. 52 Her son's arrest, and sequent punishment.

1853 Zoologist 11 3871 Some of the inferences drawn are not sequent on the premises.

1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. iii. 82 The strictly sequent corollary to the Puritan view of Antichrist.

a. Following one another in succession or in a series; successive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective]

subaltern1579

subalternal1588

succeeding1602

consecutive1611

sequenta1616

subalternate1649

successional1685

seriatim1813

serial2006

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > successive or following one after another

successive?a1475

progressional1570

consecutive1611

sequenta1616

progressive1620

back-to-back1626

running1682

seriatim1813

straight1899

tandem1926

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. ii. 41 The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent [1622 frequent] Messengers This very night, at one anothers heeles.

1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xiii. 323 The never-ending chain of sequent events.

1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 49 Every harmonious combination of events, sequent or coexistent.

1881 J. Sully Illusions 163 A very similar kind of unification takes place between sequent images under the form of transformation.

1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > characterized by or involving succession

sequent1609

successanean1635

successive1685

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adjective] > forming an unbroken series

continual1557

sequent1609

connexed1614

connex1653

straight1971

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lx. sig. E Like as the waues make towards the pibled shore, So..our minuites..In sequent toile all forwards do contend.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 188/2 A file, is a sequent number of men standing one behind an other.

1860 C. Reade Eighth Commandment 318 A masterpiece of construction and arrangement, sequent, articulate, clear, pointed.

1872 J. Ruskin Aratra Pentelici 114 Perfectly arranged disposition of counted masses in a sequent order.

1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine III. viii. 122 The sweet face, more and more lit up with sequent thought.

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 58 Chamber to chamber of her sequent brain Gives answer.

4. That forms a sequel or continuation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent > appropriately following (of subject, etc.)

ensuant1589

subsequent1781

sequent1833

sequential1854

follow-up1897

1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism Pref. p. iv The nearly connected and sequent subject.

B. n.

†1. A follower, attendant. Obsolete. rare.

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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun]

followereOE

youngereOE

retenantc1390

suitora1398

waitera1500

retainer1508

pursuivant1513

villein1534

consequent1550

backmanc1560

janissary1565

jackman1566

hensure1568

belonger1577

lackey1588

sequent1598

pedissequant1607

henchman1754

gesith1861

ministerialis1888

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 137 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. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific value in game

sequent1620

lead1742

maker1753

stop1808

strong card1839

king card1850

brisque1870

honour card1876

penultimate1876

guard1885

thirteener1891

wild card1940

1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 49 There bee others that delight in figures, and their words fall in, one after another like sequents.

1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) i. 93 (Picquet) Each is to examine what Cards he has in his Hands of the same Suit, which are Sequents.

a1745 J. Swift Game Traffick in Wks. (1746) VIII. 312 Dame Floyd looks out in grave Suspence For Pair-royals and Sequents.

†3. The following narrative; the subsequent course of events; the sequel. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > ensuing narrative

sequela1616

sequent1655

1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 36 A brave resolute man, as the sequent will demonstrate.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 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.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > subsequent event or act

after-cominga1382

subsequence1563

consequenta1627

post-fact1631

train1638

arrear1659

sequent1833

post hoc1843

sequence1853

follow-on1879

1833 W. 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.

1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun]

proofc1330

worka1382

workinga1382

consequentc1386

effectc1390

processa1400

consequencec1400

sequel1477

efficacea1492

operation1525

branch1526

efficacy1549

trial1559

ensuing1561

repercussion1603

success1606

productiona1610

salutation1609

succeedinga1616

pursuancea1626

spawna1631

income1635

result1638

importance1645

consequency1651

product1651

causal1652

causate1656

consectary1659

propter hoc1671

inference1673

corollary1674

resultment1683

produce1698

recussion1754

development1803

suitea1806

eventuation1813

sequent1838

sequence1853

causatum1879

sequela1883

ramification1925

1838 Blackwood's Mag. 43 200 Conscience, morality, and responsibility,..may be shown to be based in consciousness, and necessary sequents thereof.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. §5. 193 No human thought can deal with them..as necessary antecedents or sequents in any logical deductions.

1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 119 The relation of antecedents and sequents.

1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory (1889) I. 464 Assuming an interval between the two sequents (physical and mental) upon the molecular change.

1891 Speaker 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	sequent
释义	sequentadj.n. /ˈsiːkwənt/ Etymology: < Old French sequent, < Latin sequent-em, present participle of sequī to follow. Compare Spanish siguiente, Portuguese seguinte, seqüente, Italian seguente, sequente. A. adj. 1. That follows or comes after. †a. That one is about to say or mention; (the) following, ensuing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adjective] corollaryc1449 consequent1509 resulting?a1560 sequent1575 pursuant1593 following1594 ensuing1604 eventual1607 attendant1617 emergentc1619 resultant1639 resultative1645 consecutive1647 reflexed1653 redundant1654 reflex1654 consequential1655 resultive1655 attending1682 propter hoc1889 ensuant1897 sequential1899 pursuivant1941 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > that which follows (in a book, etc.) following1340 underwritten1389 underfollowing14.. sequent1575 under-mentioned1640 below-mentioned1665 below1822 underhanded1884 postludial1935 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 15^v And scho in hand ane letter had quhairon: Hir charge scho red, quhais tennour is sequent. 1607 W. Yonge Diary Oct. (1848) 15 There are extant books in print, the one by an eye-witness, to the sequent (following) event. 1653 Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick 37 Such as are set in the Sequent Figure. 1821 Rouge et Noir 45 You'll find it in the sequent canto. b. That succeeds or is subsequent in time or serial order. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent followingOE afterOE nextOE suinga1325 suant1422 succedentc1450 after-comingc1454 secondary1471 subsequent1472 succeeding1561 supervenient1565 subsequent1568 consequent1581 proceeding1592 ensuing1604 subsecutive1611 sequenta1616 insequentc1620 postliminious1625 sequel1632 postnate1638 supervening1640 descending1642 forward1643 postventional1645 yondersa1650 succrescent1653 pedissequous1657 subsequential1657 assequent1659 post-nated1659 posthume1662 posterious1672 survenient1677 succedent1688 postliminous1714 first1746 sequelled1805 postliminary1826 thereafter1830 descensive1882 akoluthic1889 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 200 Of sixe preceding Ancestors, that Iemme Confer'd by testament to'th sequent issue Hath it beene owed and worne. View more context for this quotation 1646 H. Hammond View Exceptions to Visct. Falkland's Disc. Infallibilitie 191 Miracles..creditably recorded from age to age, both in the Evangelists and other sequent Histories. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 553 Priviledges..of which Lodovicus Pius was in Possession, and all the sequent Kings. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 79 What primitive, or sequent Church ever taught..such doctrine as this? 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 165 There he dies, and leaves his Race Growing into a Nation, and now grown Suspected to a sequent King. View more context for this quotation a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy i, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 294 Virtue then Requires the pruner's hand; the sequent stage, It barely vegetates. 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 100 Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakspeare's wit. 1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester ix The Rector..enjoyed his sequent glass of port. 1887 R. A. Proctor 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. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [adjective] following1546 sequenta1625 a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) i. ii. 60 Either I am The fore-horse in the Teame, or I am none That draw i'th sequent trace. View more context for this quotation 1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno v. 98 The coast, where Po descends To rest in ocean with his sequent streams. 1874 J. Ruskin Val D'Arno App., in Wks. IX. 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. ΚΠ 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 106 The sequent effects. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 370 Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, Is all the grace I beg. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. ii. 51 Indeed your O Lord sir, is very sequent to your whipping. View more context for this quotation 1796 G. L. Way tr. P. J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy Fabliaux I. 52 Her son's arrest, and sequent punishment. 1853 Zoologist 11 3871 Some of the inferences drawn are not sequent on the premises. 1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. iii. 82 The strictly sequent corollary to the Puritan view of Antichrist. 3. a. Following one another in succession or in a series; successive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] subaltern1579 subalternal1588 succeeding1602 consecutive1611 sequenta1616 subalternate1649 successional1685 seriatim1813 serial2006 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > successive or following one after another successive?a1475 progressional1570 consecutive1611 sequenta1616 progressive1620 back-to-back1626 running1682 seriatim1813 straight1899 tandem1926 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1623) i. ii. 41 The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent [1622 frequent] Messengers This very night, at one anothers heeles. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xiii. 323 The never-ending chain of sequent events. 1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 49 Every harmonious combination of events, sequent or coexistent. 1881 J. Sully Illusions 163 A very similar kind of unification takes place between sequent images under the form of transformation. 1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 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. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > characterized by or involving succession sequent1609 successanean1635 successive1685 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adjective] > forming an unbroken series continual1557 sequent1609 connexed1614 connex1653 straight1971 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lx. sig. E Like as the waues make towards the pibled shore, So..our minuites..In sequent toile all forwards do contend. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 188/2 A file, is a sequent number of men standing one behind an other. 1860 C. Reade Eighth Commandment 318 A masterpiece of construction and arrangement, sequent, articulate, clear, pointed. 1872 J. Ruskin Aratra Pentelici 114 Perfectly arranged disposition of counted masses in a sequent order. 1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine III. viii. 122 The sweet face, more and more lit up with sequent thought. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 58 Chamber to chamber of her sequent brain Gives answer. 4. That forms a sequel or continuation. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent > appropriately following (of subject, etc.) ensuant1589 subsequent1781 sequent1833 sequential1854 follow-up1897 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism Pref. p. iv The nearly connected and sequent subject. B. n. †1. A follower, attendant. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] followereOE youngereOE retenantc1390 suitora1398 waitera1500 retainer1508 pursuivant1513 villein1534 consequent1550 backmanc1560 janissary1565 jackman1566 hensure1568 belonger1577 lackey1588 sequent1598 pedissequant1607 henchman1754 gesith1861 ministerialis1888 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 137 And here he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger Queenes. View more context for this quotation †2. A unit of a sequence; esp. of playing-cards. Cf. sequence n. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific value in game sequent1620 lead1742 maker1753 stop1808 strong card1839 king card1850 brisque1870 honour card1876 penultimate1876 guard1885 thirteener1891 wild card1940 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 49 There bee others that delight in figures, and their words fall in, one after another like sequents. 1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester (ed. 5) i. 93 (Picquet) Each is to examine what Cards he has in his Hands of the same Suit, which are Sequents. a1745 J. Swift Game Traffick in Wks. (1746) VIII. 312 Dame Floyd looks out in grave Suspence For Pair-royals and Sequents. †3. The following narrative; the subsequent course of events; the sequel. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > ensuing narrative sequela1616 sequent1655 1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 36 A brave resolute man, as the sequent will demonstrate. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 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.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > subsequent event or act after-cominga1382 subsequence1563 consequenta1627 post-fact1631 train1638 arrear1659 sequent1833 post hoc1843 sequence1853 follow-on1879 1833 W. 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. 1893 A. M. Fairbairn Place 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. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] proofc1330 worka1382 workinga1382 consequentc1386 effectc1390 processa1400 consequencec1400 sequel1477 efficacea1492 operation1525 branch1526 efficacy1549 trial1559 ensuing1561 repercussion1603 success1606 productiona1610 salutation1609 succeedinga1616 pursuancea1626 spawna1631 income1635 result1638 importance1645 consequency1651 product1651 causal1652 causate1656 consectary1659 propter hoc1671 inference1673 corollary1674 resultment1683 produce1698 recussion1754 development1803 suitea1806 eventuation1813 sequent1838 sequence1853 causatum1879 sequela1883 ramification1925 1838 Blackwood's Mag. 43 200 Conscience, morality, and responsibility,..may be shown to be based in consciousness, and necessary sequents thereof. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. §5. 193 No human thought can deal with them..as necessary antecedents or sequents in any logical deductions. 1884 ‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaphysica Nova et Vetusta 119 The relation of antecedents and sequents. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory (1889) I. 464 Assuming an interval between the two sequents (physical and mental) upon the molecular change. 1891 Speaker 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1575
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