[f. SUBSEQUENT: see -ENCE.]
1. That which is subsequent; a subsequent event; the sequel.
a. 1500[?]. Chester Pl., I. 187. Yow shall well wyt the Subsequence, this Daunce will turne to teene and traye.
1592. West, 1st Pt. Symbol., § 52. Let us enter into consideration of the subsequence or sequele thereof.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, III. xxx. 150. Without any more stirre or other subsequence of war. Ibid., V. ix. 209. What auailes the subsequence?
1637. Heywood, Descr. Soveraign of Seas, 34. As they comply in the premisses,… they differ not all in the subsequence.
1827. G. S. Faber, Sacr. Cal. Prophecy (1844), III. 331. The predicted millennium with its concomitants and subsequences.
2. The condition or fact of being subsequent.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., I. iv. § 1. 14. With such an order of precedence and subsequence as their natures will bear.
1701. Grew, Cosmol. Sacra, II. iii. 43. By which Faculty [sc. reminiscence], we are also able to take notice of the Order of Precedence and Subsequence, in which they are past.
1846. Trench, Mirac., No. 5 (1862), 159. The Scripture teaches the absolute subordination of evil to good, and its subsequence of order.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, xxviii. An affair which appeared in due subsequence in the newspapers.
1884. Browning, Ferishtah, Bean-Stripe, 70. Joy, sorrow,—by precedence, subsequence—Either on each, make fusion.
