a. and sb. [a. F. subséquent (14th c. in Littré), or ad. L. subsequens, -entem, pr. pple. of subsequī, f. sub- SUB- III + sequī to follow.]
A. adj.
1. Following in order or succession; coming or placed after, esp. immediately after.
a. 1460. J. Metham, Wks. (E.E.T.S.), 157/1. I rede in elde volummys this matere subsequent.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 346/1. Then applye theron the whytes of Egges … and then applye theron this subsequente playster.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. iii. 344. Such Indexes, although small prickes To their subsequent Volumes.
1660. Barrow, Euclid, Pref. (1714), p. ij. The six precedent and the two subsequent [Books].
1745. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. I. 285. The Sentences precedent and subsequent.
1788. Encycl. Brit. (1797), I. 695/2. This, with the subsequent bones of the ear, are here delineated as large as the life.
1814. Scott, Wav., ii. But more of this in a subsequent chapter.
1833. J. Rennie, Alph. Angl., 21. We shall see in a subsequent page the principle upon which this is founded.
absol. 1596. Nashe, Saffron-Walden, To Rdr. Wks. 1905, III. 22/31. The subsequent or hindermost of the paire.
2. Following or succeeding in time; existing or occurring after, esp. immediately after, something expressed or implied; coming or happening later.
† The subsequent (year, etc.), the (year, etc.) subsequent, the year, etc. next following.
Condition subsequent: see CONDITION sb. 2.
1503–4. Act 19 Hen. VII., c. 27 § 6. To begyn and ende theyr accompt … in the yere subsequent for the yere precedent.
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 107. As if one gives any thing with such an intention that it shall be the Donees when a subsequent thing is performed.
1662. Petty, Taxes, iv. 28. The envy which precedent missions of English [in Ireland] have against the subsequent.
1681. Stair, Inst. Law Scot., II. xxvii. 137. No Son of a subsequent Branch could be entered.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), V. 129. His other plates I will repeat briefly, as I shall those of subsequent engravers.
1800. Colquhoun, Comm. Thames, xi. 300. It was found needful to explain and amend this Charter by many others Subsequent.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvii. IV. 56. The day from which all his subsequent years took their colour.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. iii. 23. My subsequent destination was Vienna.
1905. R. Bagot, Passport, xxxvi. Concetta delivered the letter, and another subsequent one.
b. Const. to. (Also advb. = subsequently to. Cf. previous, etc.)
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. § 12. The ill Consequences of it, or the Actions which were subsequent to it.
a. 1745. Swift, Some Remarks on Barrier Treaty, Wks. 1841, I. 430/1. This prodigious article is introduced as subsequent to the treaty of Munster.
1806. Med. Jrnl., XV. 141. I have not heard of any death but one shortly subsequent to cow-pox inoculation.
1822. Heber, Wks. Jer. Taylor (1828), I. p. xl. Subsequent to the suppression … he was … at large.
1871. Smiles, Charac., ii. (1876), 39. It was long subsequent to the death of both his parents.
1911. War Dept. Provis. Subsidy Scheme, 1. Lorries must have been built subsequent to 1st January, 1911.
c. Forming a sequel to. (rare.)
1779. Johnson, L. P., Pope (1868), 408. He had planned a work, which he considered as subsequent to his ‘Essay on Man.’
d. Phys. Geog. (See quots.)
[1862. Jukes, in Jrnl. Geol. Soc., XVIII. 400. That the lateral valleys are the first formed … while the longitudinal valleys are of subsequent origin, gradually produced by atmospheric action on the softer and more easily eroded beds that strike along the chains.]
1895. W. M. Davis, in Geogr. Jrnl. (R.G.S.), V. 131. The peculiarity of subsequent streams is … that they run along the strike of weak strata; while consequent streams run down the dip, crossing harder and softer strata alike.
1898. I. C. Russell, River Developm., vii. 185. Streams originate, the directions of which are regulated by the hardness and solubility of the rocks. Such streams appear subsequently to the main topographic features in their environment, and are termed subsequent streams.
e. Geol. = INTRUSIVE a. 26.
1888. Teall, Brit. Petrogr., 449.
† B. sb. A person or thing that follows or comes after another. Obs.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xii. 294. Deeming all other apprentiships as subsequents and of superarogation in regard of that [orig. estimant tout autre apprentissage subsecutif à celuy-la & supernumeraire].
1623. Bp. Hall, Serm. Reedified Chapell Earle of Execter, Wks. (1634), 484. This conceit … is quite dissonant from the context, both in regard of the precedents, and subsequents.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. vii. 179. It hath a most excellent congruity with the subsequents of the Holy History.
1685. Coron. Jas. II. (Broadside). So Handsome that all other Ladies, Her Subsequents seem’d but her Shaddows.
1824. L. Murray, Engl. Gram. (ed. 5), I. 241. As the relative pronoun, when used interrogatively, refers to the subsequent word or phrase containing the answer to the question, that word or phrase may properly be termed the subsequent to the interrogative.
† b. These subsequents: the persons or things mentioned immediately afterwards. Obs.
1612. Sturtevant, Metallica, 57. These subsequents are most necessarie, as namely; Ioyners, Carpenters, Smithes, Brickelayers, Masons.
1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), 15. These subsequents … to be obserued in this Realme concerning Doctrine.
