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▪ I. sequel, n.|ˈsiːkwəl|
Forms: 5–7 sequele, (5 sequely, 6 sequeale), 6–8 sequell, 6 sequeile, north. sequyle, 7 sequill, Sc. sequeill, 6– sequel.
[a. OF. sequelle (mod.F. séquelle), ad. L. sequēla (sequella), f. sequī to follow.]
†1. A train of followers, band of adherents, following, suit; rarely, a follower. In Feudal Law, the offspring, retinue, chattels, and appurtenances of a villein. Obs.
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 871 These were her names: fyrst, Nygromansy, Geomansy, Magyk, and Glotony,..Fysenamy also, and Pawmestry, And all her sequelys. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 95 Whiche is callede other⁓while a sequele [L. sequela: Trevisa sewte] of natife men. c1450Godstow Reg. 559 The forsaid bondmen or natifs with all ther catallis sutis or sequelys. 1490Caxton Eneydos vi. 22 Thenne Eneas and all his sequele made theym redy for to..leue the sayd countrey of Trase. 1491― Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 273/2 He had also a grete sequely & rowte of worldly & galaunt seruauntis. 1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 330 The great nombre of Irisshery, so being in exile, being togider with ther tenauntes and sequell. 1577Harrison England i. ii. v. 164/2 The yeomanrie, of whom and their sequele, the labourers and artificers, I haue said somewhat euen now. 1591Queen Elizabeth in Lett. Eliz. & Jas. (Camden) 65 My lewde rebel, whose person and forse..drawes few for sequel. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §72 That eithers friends, adherents, and sequels, should be comprehended in the truce. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 190 His freeholders and villaines with their Sequells.
†b. transf. and fig. Obs.
1552Latimer Serm. Lincolnsh. i. (1584) 180 But nowe there be other dishes, which be sequels or hangynges on, wherewith the chiefe dishe is powdred. 1590Southwell M. Magd. Funerall Teares Ded. 4 For passions being sequels of our nature, and allotted unto us, as the handmaids of reason. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 114 These foure great Ilandes with their sequele.
c. Scots Law. (See quot. 1838.)
c1609Inchaffray Charters (S.H.S.) 171 The mylne of Dumfalleis mylnlandis astrictit multures and sequeillis thairof. 1701in Fasti Aberd. (1854) 202 The milne of Balmad milne lands multures suckine sequells and knaveships thereof. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 223 The sequels are the small quantities given to the servants, under the name of knaveship, bannock, and lock or gowpen. 1820Scott Monast. xiii, Not one in the Halidome pays their multures more duly, sequels, arriage, and carriage. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot., Sequels, in thirlage, are the small allowances of meal, or of manufactured victual, or of money composition, made to the servants at the dominant mill for their real or implied trouble in grinding the victual of the servient lands.
†2. Descendants, posterity; successors in inheritance. Also pl. Obs.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 199 And for þis, fro hensfurth, all his sequele at holdis þis same possession & knowis þerof, mon be punysshid. 1533in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 78 To pray..for the prosperitie of the said Nicholas and his heyres and sequele. a1547Surrey in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 218 A goodly meane both to deterre from crime: And to her steppes our sequele to enflame. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 212 b, Promising to beare his.. frendly favor to kyng Henry the sixte and his sequele. 1572Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) II. 387, I wyll that when these leases be expyred..that thay or ther sequyles shall haue the same again.
fig.1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 230 All murders, robberies, spoyles, slaughters, and desolacions, beyng the sequele, and as it wer, y⊇ children of warre.
b. Law. sequels in estate: (a person's) successors in a holding.
1889Daily News 27 Nov. 7/3 The Bill will authorise Lord Tredegar and his sequels in estate, and trustees..to exchange..portions of the ballast land..for [etc.].
3. That which follows as a result of an event or course of action; an after-consequence. in sequel to, as a consequence of. † by sequels: by consecutive stages. Obs.
The sense has been rare since the 16th century; the occasional examples in 19th c. writers are akin to sense 6.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 3 b, Suche tresor may nat by gadred wythoute the sequele be to hys daunger. a1513Fabyan Chron. iv. (1516) 23/2 Wherfore after punysshement done vpon some of his Enemyes, he ferynge y⊇ Sequell and Reuengement of the same laft that Countree. a1530Heywood Love 1189 And he that lacketh any one of those three..Deth must be sequell howe euer it be. Ibid. 1227 That my ioy by loue shall bryng deth in sequell. 1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI, M vij b, This gere came by Sequels... He by vnrepentaunce fel from euyll to worse, and from worse, to worste of al, til at the length he was made a spectacle to all the world. 1601Holland Pliny xxii. xxiii. II. 135 For I have seene the fearfull sequele of that experiment, in a man, who..threw himselfe headlong from an high loft. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. iii. 10 The Future being but a fiction of the mind, applying the sequels of actions Past, to the actions that are Present. 1832Tennyson Œnone 151, I woo thee not with gifts. Sequel of guerdon could not alter me To fairer. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. iii. 270 He had assured himself that every phenomenon in the moral or material world was the sequel of a natural cause. 1895W. Munk Life Halford ii. 20 Cullen was still living and lecturing, though in sequel to age failing somewhat.
†b. Consequence, importance. Obs.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 26 The granting whereof..would be..newes of wofull sequell vnto the papists. 1591G. Fletcher Russe Commw. 82 b, There is no such affection..betwixt the Pope & the Turke, as that he should banish a subiect for not obeying the Popes ordinance, specially in a matter of some sequele for the alteration of times within his owne countries. 1658A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. iii. x. 247 The dressing is of as great sequel and concernment, as applyed medicines to Wounds.
†c. concr. Something developed from or produced by something else. Obs.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 246 Whatever parts, or supposed simple Principles, any sort of Bodies are reducible into, they are but the sequels or after-products..of those two real Principles, Water and Seed.
d. Med. = sequela.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 237 The nervous sequels in mumps are not confined to cases which begin with such nervous symptoms. Ibid. III. 56 In many of these [cases] the lesions are rather of the nature of sequels.
†4. That which follows or is thought to follow as a logical consequence; an inference. Obs.
1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 19 It is a very simple sequele, onely vpon remembrance of Christs Death to found the Masse. 1585Sandys Serm. viii. 133 The people pay tithes of that they haue, therefore there must needes be sufficient to maintaine them. If things were well ordered, this sequele were good. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 20 So fareth it with the bodies and by sequele with the soules of men. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 152 Doe they not..make, I know not what vn-ioynted sequels, by which after one errour granted, they runne into a thousand. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. xi. 44 These..are scarce Rhetoricall sequells, concluding metaphors from realities. a1658Lovelace Poems, Adv. to Brother vii, 'Tis a false sequel..to suppose That, 'cause it is now ill, 'twill ere be so. 1689Prior Ep. to F. Shepherd 39 Then he, by Sequel Logical, Writes best, who never thinks at all.
†5. Sequence, order of succession; also a number of things in succession, a series. Obs.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, v. ii. 361 The King hath graunted euery Article: His Daughter first; and in sequele, all. 1615Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1629) 675 That second part is sett downe in a sequele of foure. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 581 The Apocalypse..hath marks..whereby the Order, Synchronism and Sequele of all the Visions therein contained may be found out and demonstrated. 1713Bentley Rem. Disc. Free-Thinking i. (ed. 2) 18 Homer..wrote a sequel of Songs and Rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings and good cheer. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 87 Molinet having got the Sequal or chaine of 400 Brass Medals of the Popes. 1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 15 Signatures..at the bottom of the page, to shew the sequel of the sheets.
6. What happened or will happen afterwards; the ensuing course of affairs, subsequent train of events, issue, result, upshot. † in sequel, afterwards, subsequently, in the end. Obs.
1524in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. i. iii. 50, I do tremble to remember the End of all these high and new Enterprizes. For oftentimes it hath been seen, that to a new Enterprize, there followeth a new Maner, and strange Sequel. 1567Fenton Trag. Disc. 140 b, His prophecie also seamed fully verefyed in the sequeile of the licenceous lyuing of his new wif. 1579–80North Plutarch, Artaxerxes (1595) 1015 He could not haue deuised a fitter place.., as it fell out in sequell. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. ii. 137 O plague right well preuented! so will you say, when you haue seene the sequele. 1666in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 24 By reason of some unlucky sequells of his first speedy coming into this kingdome..hee is brought into a lower condition of fortune. 1667Milton P.L. x. 334 Hee, after Eve seduc't, unminded slunk Into the Wood fast by,..To observe the sequel. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 176 Their lives are first taken away, and in sequel their estates. 1714Swift Pres. St. Aff. (1741) 11 The October-Club which appeared so formidable at first..proved in the Sequel to be the chief Support of those who suspected them. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xx. 386 Uses which discover themselves in the sequel of the process. 1835Marryat J. Faithful xxiv, Whether Captain Turnbull or I were right, remains to be proved in the sequel. 1876J. Parker Paracl. ii. xviii. 295 We must await the sequel for a complete justification of this course.
†b. The remaining period (of the year, one's life).
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. lxviii. 746 The Oke Apples..forshewe the sequell of the yeere..by the liuing thinges that are founde within them. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. i, That in the shortened sequel of my life I may pour forth my soul into thine arms. 1619Earl Suffolk in Fortescue Papers (Camden) 80 And all the sequel of my lyfe after, lyue Your Majesties trwe subject and faithfull servaunt.
c. An age or period as following and influenced by (a former period).
1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857) I. 10 When this step has been made..there may generally be observed another period, which we may call the Sequel of the Epoch, during which the discovery has acquired a more perfect certainty. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 32 The nineteenth century is what it is as the sequel, not of the eighteenth century only, but of all the centuries that have preceded it.
7. The ensuing narrative, discourse, etc.; the following or remaining part of a narrative, etc.; that which follows as a continuation; esp. a literary work that, although complete in itself, forms a continuation of a preceding one.
a1513Fabyan Chron. i. Prol. (1533) 2 But of those dedes me lyste nat here to shewe For in the sequele they shall well appere. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 1 b, What profite..succeded in the realme of England by the union of the fornamed two noble families you shall apparantly perceive by the sequele of this..history. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. i. 122 Val. I will write..a thousand times as much: And yet—. Sil. A pretty period: well: I ghesse the sequell. 1644Vicars God in Mount 147 Which..proved a Babell, a hill of confusion to them in the issue, as you shall hear in the sequill. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 94 Wherein how they have either acquitted their Client, or acquighted themselvs, the sequele shal shew. 1689Locke Govt. ii. ii. §15 (1694) 176, I moreover affirm, That [etc.]; And I doubt not in the Sequel of this Discourse, to make it very clear. 1710Steele & Addison Tatler No. 253 ⁋13 The Sequel of the Proceedings of this Day will be published on Tuesday next. 1740Cibber Apol. ix. 174 In Love's Last Shift, and in the Sequel of it, the Relapse. 1794Paley Evid. ii. vii. (1817) 189, I will only observe, as a sequel of the argument, the remarkable similitude between the style of Saint John's Gospel, and of St. John's Epistle. 1858E. A. Bond Russia (Hakl. Soc.) Introd. 1 The one [work] serves as a sequel to or complement of the other. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. xv. 297 This story has an interest of its own..independently of the grander narrative to which it is a close sequel. 1884D. Hunter tr. Reuss's Hist. Canon xiii. 244 We shall meet with it again more than once in the sequel of this history.
†8. Phonetics. (See quot.) Obs. rare—1.
1706E. Lhuyd Archæol. Brit. 35/1 Sequels, or such Consonants as when they begin words, admit of none other immediately after them; tho they'l immediately follow. L,n,r.
▪ II. † ˈsequel, a. Obs. rare.
[f. sequel n.]
That followed after, subsequent.
1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 293 The sequell morne, we marched through a fiery faced plaine. Ibid. x. 488 After this, their sequell answere being mortified, and I set at liberty.
▪ III. † ˈsequel, v. Obs. rare.
[f. sequel n.]
trans. To follow. Hence † ˈsequelled ppl. a.
1594Zepheria xl, If she shall attend what fortunes sequell'd The naufrage of my poor afflicted bark, Then tell [etc.]. 1805in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. IX. 254 But ah! who can control his fate? My sequel'd tale I'll brief relate. |