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sequent | subsequently |

As an adjective sequent

is that comes after in time or order; subsequent.

As a noun sequent

is something that follows in a given sequence.

As an adverb subsequently is

following, afterwards in either time or place.

sequent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
  • *1860 , , Two Sonnets :
  • *:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
  • *:As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
  • *:Each night since first the world was made hath had
  • *:A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
  • That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent (to), (on), (upon).
  • *c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure :
  • *:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
  • *1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
  • *:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
  • Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
  • *c. 1603 , (William Shakespeare), Othello , I.2:
  • *:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that follows in a given sequence.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
  • *:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
  • (logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
  • (obsolete) A follower.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Related terms

    * sequence * consequent * subsequent * consequence * non sequitur

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    subsequently

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Following, afterwards in either time or place.
  • Accordingly, therefore (implying a logical connection or deduction).

    • Usage notes

    Although subsequently may imply a cause and effect relationship, it may also be used when no cause is implied.

    Quotations

    * 1832 — , volume II, chapter 7 *: It will be recollected that the ill-fated Halloway...distinctly stated the voice of the individual who had approached his post...to have been that of a female, and that the language in which they subsequently conversed was that of the Ottawa Indians. * {{quote-book, year=1905, author= , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}

    Related terms

    * subsequence * subsequent * subsequential