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▪ I. enˈsuing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. ensue, in various senses.
1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc i. i, In right ensuynge of your life. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 103 b, The ensuyng of whose studious industry we do not neglect. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. viii. (1628) 242 A iust insuing of the vse of reason.
▪ II. ensuing, ppl. a. etc.|ɛnˈsjuːɪŋ|
[f. ensue v. + -ing2.]
A. ppl. adj.
1. In various applications of the sense of ensue v. 5.
a. Coming afterwards, subsequent, posterior in time or order (? obs.).
b. Immediately subsequent, coming next; also next ensuing.
c. That is shortly to happen, approaching, imminent.
a.1604Dekker King's Entertainm. 270 To a more royall and serious ensuing entertainment. 1610Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. iv. i, A great example of their justice To all ensuing eyes. 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xxiv. 43 Men, rather than they will want insuing memory, will be spoken by the branded Statue. 1680Life Edw. II in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 49 A perfect mirror, wherein ensuing kings may see, etc.
b.1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) 20 What conceipt I have..I will partly make manifest by this insuing circumstance. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 112 Th' ensuing Season, in return, may bear The bearded product of the Golden Year. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) Introd. 27, I have had many Opportunities of trying the Virtues of the ensuing Remedies. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxviii, For the three ensuing days I was in a state of anxiety. 1875Scrivener Lect. Grk. Test. 11 In the two next ensuing Lectures.
c.1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 306 By the small number of their army divining their ensuing overthrow. 1678Trans. Crt. Spain ii. 158 There is appearance of an ensueing rupture. 1734Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 4/3 The ensuing Elections of Members to serve in parliament. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxiii, To make some arrangements for the ensuing combat.
2. In sense of ensue v. 6: Resulting.
1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 III. 75 To guard you safe from all ensuing danger. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 290 Their manifest crimes serve to bring forth an ensuing good. 1665Earl Rothes in Lauderd. Papers (1884) I. 216 To prevent ffurdier inshowieng danger.
†B. pple. (quasi-prep.). With respect to. Obs.
1645–62E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 6) 201 Ensuing this voice, we see that St. Peter calls it, etc. |