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Sequent   /sˈikwənt/   Listen
adjective
Sequent  adj.  
1.
Following; succeeding; in continuance. "What to this was sequent Thou knowest already."
2.
Following as an effect; consequent.


noun
Sequent  n.  
1.
A follower. (R.)
2.
That which follows as a result; a sequence.





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"Sequent" Quotes from Famous Books



... astride, He drives the other, spite of dread, Which, loath indeed to go ahead, Into a deep hole turns aside, And, facing right about, Where he went in, comes out; For duckings, two or three Had power the salt to melt, So that the creature felt His burden'd shoulders free. The sponger, like a sequent sheep, Pursuing through the water deep, Into the same hole plunges Himself, his rider, and the sponges. All three drank deeply: asseteer and ass For boon companions of their load might pass; Which last became so sore a weight, The ass fell down, Belike to drown His rider risking equal fate. ...
— A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine • Jean de La Fontaine
... who shall find this paper I must beg a little consideration. It is not the history of my life; the knowledge to write that is denied me. This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black—witch-fires glowing still and red in a ...
— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce
... unification takes place between sequent images under the form of transformation. When two images follow one another closely, and have anything in common, they readily assume the form of a transmutation. There is a sort of overlapping of the mental images, and so an appearance of continuity produced in some respects analogous to that which ...
— Illusions - A Psychological Study • James Sully


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