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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 ]

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

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 ]

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

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

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 ]