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n. Drawing inference. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. conséquent. See Second, and cf. Consecution. ] 1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consequent points,
Consequent poles (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent. [ 1913 Webster ]

All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

His stately and consequential pace. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consequential damage (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. [ 1913 Webster ]

The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. With assumed importance; pompously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being consequential. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

Syn. -- See Accordingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inconsequentia: cf. F. inconséquence. ] The quality or state of being inconsequent; lack of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconsequens: cf. F. inconséquent. See In- not, and Consequent. ] Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Loose and inconsequent conjectures. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence. Chesterfield. -- In*con`se*quen"tial*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The state of being inconsequential. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inconsequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Astronomy) That region on a two-dimensional graph of luminosity versus temperature for stars (the Herzsprung-Russel diagram), which runs from high temperature and high luminosity to low temperature and low luminosity, in which most of the stars (plotted as points on the diagram) are found. A normal star such as the earth's sun will spend most of its time over billions of years within this region of temperature and luminosity, as it progressively converts more of its original hydrogen into heavier elements. After the hydrogen is consumed, a star may become a red giant or evolve into other types of star not within the main sequence region. [ PJC ]

n. A wrong consequence; a false deduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., to be unwilling to prosecute. ] (Law) Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. he does not prosecute. ] (Law) A judgment entered against the plaintiff in a suit where he does not appear to prosecute. See Nolle prosequi. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., it does not follow. ] (Logic) An inference which does not follow from the premises. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obsequens, p. pr. of obsequi; ob (see Ob-) + sequi. See Sequence. ] Obedient; submissive; obsequious. [ Obs. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Obsequiousness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Obsequy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obsequiosus, fr. obsequium compliance, fr. obsequi, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obséquieux, See Obsequent, and cf. Obsequy. ] 1. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His servants weeping,
Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite. [ 1913 Webster ]

There lies ever in “obsequious” at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ See Obsequy. ] Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. [ R. ] “To do obsequious sorrow.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Compliant; obedient; servile. See Yielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Whilst I a while obsequiously lament
The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being obsequious. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Obsequies [ L. obsequiae, pl., funeral rites, fr. obsequi: cf. F. obsèques. See Obsequent, and cf. Obsequious. ] 1. The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will . . . fetch him hence, and solemnly attend,
With silent obsequy and funeral train. Milton [ 1913 Webster ]

I will myself
Be the chief mourner at his obsequies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family. J. P. Mahaffy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Obsequiousness. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sequax, -acis, fr. suquit to follow. See Sue to follow. ] 1. Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trees uprooted left their place,
Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious, like those of the planets. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being sequacious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sequacitas. ] Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sequela, fr. sequit to follow: cf. F. séquelle a following. See Sue to follow. ] 1. That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Conclusion; inference. [ R. ] Whitgift. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sequelae [ L., a follower, a result, from sequit to follow. ] One who, or that which, follows. Specifically: (a) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. “Coleridge and his sequela.” G. P. Marsh. (b) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sequelae, or thoughts suggested by the preceding aphorisms. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) (Med.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. séquence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See Sequent. ] 1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. [ 1913 Webster ]

How art thou a king
But by fair sequence and succession? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) (a) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps. (b) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (R.C.Ch.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name. Bp. Fitzpatrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Card Playing) (a) (Whist) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight. (b) (Poker) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. the specific order of any linear arrangement of items; as, the sequence of amino acid residues in a protein; the sequence of instructions in a computer program; the sequence of acts in a variety show. [ PJC ]

v. t. (Biochem.) to determine the sequence of; as, to sequence a protein or a DNA fragment. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. sequens, -entis, p. pr. of sequi to follow. See Sue to follow. ] 1. Following; succeeding; in continuance. [ 1913 Webster ]

What to this was sequent
Thou knowest already. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Following as an effect; consequent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A follower. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which follows as a result; a sequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Succeeding or following in order. -- Se*quen"tial*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sequestered p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestering. ] [ F. séquestrer, L. sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was placed until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate. ] 1. (Law) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively. [ 1913 Webster ]

When men most sequester themselves from action. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. i. 1. To withdraw; to retire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sequestration; separation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Same as Sequestrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Retired; secluded. “Sequestered scenes.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sequestrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestrating. ] To sequester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sequestratio: cf. F. séquestration. ] 1. (a) (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. (b) (Chancery) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. (c) (Eccl. Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with. Craig. Tomlins. Wharton. (d) (Internat. Law) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society. [ 1913 Webster ]

Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . .
This loathsome sequestration have I had. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Disunion; disjunction. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ L., one that hinders or impedes. ] (Law) (a) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits. (b) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sequestra [ NL. See Sequester. ] (Med.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sequin, It. zecchino, from zecca the mint, fr. Ar. sekkah, sikkah, a die, a stamp. Cf. Zechin. ] An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value. [ Written also chequin, and zequin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet. ] (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana, syn. Sequoia gigantea, the “big tree” of California, and Sequoia sempervirens, the redwood, both of which attain an immense height. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California “big tree” (Sequoia gigantea). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sol sun + sequi to follow. ] Following the course of the sun; as, solisequious plants. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]