sequeln.
/ˈsiːkwəl/ a. A train of followers, band of adherents, following, suit; rarely, a follower. In Feudal Law, the offspring, retinue, chattels, and appurtenances of a villein. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > property of villein
sequelc1420
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > collective or retinue
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douthOE
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cortège1679
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 871 These were her names: fyrst, Nygromansy, Geomansy, Magyk, and Glotony,..Fysenamy also, and Pawmestry, And all her sequelys.
c1450 Godstow Reg. 559 The forsaid bondmen or natifs with all ther catallis sutis or sequelys.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 95 Whiche is callede otherwhile a sequele [L. sequela: Trevisa sewte] of natife men.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 22 Thenne Eneas and all his sequele made theym redy for to..leue the sayd countrey of Trase.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cclxxiii/2 He had also a grete sequely & rowte of worldly & galaunt seruauntis.
1536 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 330 The great nombre of Irisshery, so being in exile, being togider with ther tenauntes and sequell.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. i. ii. v. 164/2 The yeomanrie, of whom and their sequele, the labourers and artificers, I haue said somewhat euen now.
1591 Queen Elizabeth I Let. in J. Bruce Lett. Queen Elizabeth & James VI (1849) 65 My lewde rebel, whose person and forse..drawes few for sequel.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 575/1 That eithers friends, adherents, and sequels, should be comprehended in the truce.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 190 His freeholders and villaines with their Sequells.
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1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 63v But nowe there be other dishes, whiche be sequeles or hangynges on, wherwith the chief dishe is poudred.
1591 R. Southwell Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares Ep. Ded. sig. A3 v For passions being sequels of our nature, and allotted vnto vs as the handmaides of reason.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 114 These foure great Ilandes with their sequele.
c. Scots Law. (See quot. 1838.)
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c1609 Inchaffray Charters (S.H.S.) 171 The mylne of Dumfalleis mylnlandis astrictit multures and sequeillis thairof.
1701 in Fasti Aberd. (1854) 202 The milne of Balmad milne lands multures suckine sequells and knaveships thereof.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. ix. 210 The sequels are the small quantities given to the servants, under the name of knaveship, bannock, and lock or gowpen.
1820 W. Scott Monastery II. ii. 17 Not one in the Halidome pays their multures more duly, sequels, arriage, and carriage.
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 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.
a. Descendants, posterity; successors in inheritance. Also plural. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collectively
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kinc950
seedOE
teamOE
offspringOE
kindOE
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generationa1325
issuea1325
successiona1340
kindredc1350
progenya1382
posterityc1410
sequelc1440
ligneea1450
posterior1509
genealogy1513
propagation1536
racea1547
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after-spring1583
bowela1593
afterworld1594
loin1608
descendance1617
succession1618
proles1640
descent1667
ramage1936
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 199 And for þis, fro hensfurth, all his sequele at holdis þis same possession & knowis þerof, mon be punysshid.
1533 in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 78 To pray..for the prosperitie of the said Nicholas and his heyres and sequele.
a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 28 A goodlie meane bothe to deter from cryme And to her steppes our sequell to enflame.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxiiv Promisyng to beare his..frendly fauor to kyng Henry the sixte and his sequele.
1572 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 387 I wyll that when these leases be expyred..that thay or ther sequyles shall haue the same again.
b. Law. sequels in estate: (a person's) successors in a holding.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > successor
followereOE
successor1297
after-comera1382
nephewa1387
succedentc1440
succeederc1450
successary1486
sequacesa1513
incomer1526
subsequent1560
phoenixa1616
superseder?1774
supersessor1810
epigone1865
sequels in estate1889
1889 Daily 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. † b. Consequence, importance. Obsolete.† c. concrete. Something developed from or produced by something else. Obsolete.
a. 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. Obsolete.The sense has been rare since the 16th century; the occasional examples in 19th cent. writers are akin to sense 6.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun]
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recussion1754
development1803
suitea1806
eventuation1813
sequent1838
sequence1853
causatum1879
sequela1883
ramification1925
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adverb] > in stages
successivelya1425
by sequels1477
by degrees?1566
progressively1620
degreeingly1628
the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [adverb] > as a consequence of
by (also through) (the) means (also mean) of1439
in sequence ofa1648
in sequel to1895
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 3v Suche tresor may nat by gadred wythoute the sequele be to hys daunger.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxiii. f. xxiii Wherfore after punysshement done vpon some of his Enemyes, he ferynge ye Sequell and Reuengement of the same laft that Countree.
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Diiiv And he that lacketh any one of those three..Deth must be sequell howe euer it be.
1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Div That my ioy by loue shall bryng deth in sequell.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Mviiv 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.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxii. xxiii. 135 For I have seene the fearfull sequele of that experiment, in a man, who..threw himselfe headlong from an high loft.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iii. 10 The Future being but a fiction of the mind, applying the sequels of actions Past, to the actions that are Present.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 125 I woo thee not with gifts. Sequel of guerdon could not alter me To fairer.
1883 J. A. Froude 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.
1895 W. Munk Life Sir H. Halford ii. 20 Cullen was still living and lecturing, though in sequel to age failing somewhat.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun]
mund?c1250
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greatnessc1410
substancec1425
importance1485
weight1521
moment1522
weightiness1530
importancy1531
importunance1546
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reckoning1582
sequel1588
ponderosity1589
valure1594
consequence1597
significance1597
circumstance1599
consequent1599
eminency1622
importmenta1625
concernment1626
consideration1634
telling1636
signification1645
considerableness1647
concerningness1657
nearness1679
significancy1679
respectability1769
interest1809
noteworthiness1852
portee1893
valency1897
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 28 The granting whereof..would be..newes of wofull sequell vnto the papists.
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxi. f. 82v 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.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. x. 247 The dressing is of as great sequel and concernment, as applyed medicines to Wounds.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product
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fodmea1325
burgeona1340
progenya1393
geniture?1440
fruitc1450
productionc1450
offspring1573
product1573
nursling1591
bantling1593
excrement1600
procedue1602
issuea1616
procedure1626
creature1651
produce1657
parturition1659
outbirth1663
sequel1669
brat1678
operation1774
outgoing1850
fruitling1876
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 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. Medicine. = sequela n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > sequel
assessor1625
dreg1639
deuteropathy1651
sequela1797
sequel1897
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 237 The nervous sequels in mumps are not confined to cases which begin with such nervous symptoms.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 56 In many of these [cases] the lesions are rather of the nature of sequels.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [noun] > product of inferring, an inference
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corollaryc1374
conclusion1399
consequencec1400
inductionc1440
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consectary1588
inference1612
sequence1614
ratiocinationc1620
introduction1632
upshot1639
sequency1642
consequency1651
deducible1654
consequentiala1734
generalization1794
educt1816
sequitur1836
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 25 It is a very simple sequele, onely vpon remembrance of Christs Death to founde the Masse.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys 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.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 20 So fareth it with the bodies and by sequele with the soules of men.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 152 Doe they not..make, I know not what vn-ioynted sequels, by which after one errour granted, they runne into a thousand.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. xi. 44 These..are scarce Rhetoricall sequells, concluding metaphors from realities. View more context for this quotation
a1658 R. Lovelace Adv. to Brother in Poems vii 'Tis a false sequel..to suppose That, 'cause it is now ill, 'twill ere be so.
1689 M. Prior Epist. to F. Shephard 39 Then he, by Sequel Logical, Writes best, who never thinks at all.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession
row?1510
processiona1564
sequencea1575
succession1579
pomp1595
suite1597
rosary1604
sequel1615
series1618
rope1621
success1632
concatenation1652
sorites1664
string1713
chain1791
course1828
serie1840
daisy chain1856
nexus1858
catena1862
litany1961
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > sequence or order of succession
entailc1380
sequence1592
series1594
sequel1615
succession1708
1615 L. Andrewes Serm. (1629) 675 That second part is sett downe in a sequele of foure.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 328 The King hath graunted euery Article: His Daughter first; and in sequele, all. View more context for this quotation
a1638 J. Mede 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.
1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking I. i. 18 Homer..wrote a sequel of Songs and Rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings and good cheer.
1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 87 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Molinet having got the Sequal or chaine of 400 Brass Medals of the Popes.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 15 Signatures..at the bottom of the page, to shew the sequel of the sheets.
6. † b. The remaining period (of the year, one's life).
a. 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. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results
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outcominga1382
conclusionc1384
endc1385
fruita1400
finec1405
termination?a1425
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success1537
event1539
pass1542
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outgate1568
exit1570
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upshoot1598
sequence1600
upshot1604
resultance1616
upshut1620
succedenta1633
apotelesm1636
come-off1640
conclude1643
prosult1647
offcome1666
resultant1692
outlet1710
period1713
outcome1788
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outcome1808
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overcome1822
upping1828
summary1831
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upcomec1874
out-turn1881
end-product1923
pay-off1926
wash-up1961
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adverb] > after, afterwards, or later
sitheneOE
aftereOE
sithOE
eftOE
latterOE
aftOE
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sithrec1175
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therewithala1300
afterwardc1300
afterwardsc1300
soc1300
therewithc1369
eftersoonsa1400
suingly?a1425
at after1425
followingly?c1425
afterhand1438
syne1489
by posteriority1523
in sequel1524
still1526
later1527
subsequently1537
senthis?1553
lately1565
subsequent1568
behindc1600
sequelarly1600
posterior1628
in prosecutiona1641
subsequentiallya1683
artera1746
posteriorly1799
ulteriorly1818
later on1829
1524 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) 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.
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. vii. sig. Sivv His prophecie also seamed fully verefyed in the sequeile of the licenceous lyuing of his new wif.
1579–80 T. North tr. Artaxerxes in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1015 He could not haue deuised a fitter place.., as it fell out in sequell.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. ii. 124 O plague right well preuented! so will you say, when you haue seene the sequele . View more context for this quotation
1666 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) 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.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 334 Hee, after Eve seduc't, unminded slunk Into the Wood fast by,..To observe the sequel . View more context for this quotation
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 176 Their lives are first taken away, and in sequel their estates.
1714 J. Swift Pres. State Affairs (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.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xx. 386 Uses which discover themselves in the sequel of the process.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. vii. 158 Whether Captain Turnbull or I were right, remains to be proved in the sequel.
1874 J. Parker Paraclete xviii. 295 We must await the sequel for a complete justification of this course.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > remaining period
sequel1578
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxviii. 746 The Oke Apples..forshewe the sequell of the yeere..by the liuing thinges that are founde within them.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E6 That in the shortned sequel of my life, I may poure foorth my soule into thine armes.
1619 Earl of Suffolk in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 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).
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > later or subsequent period > influenced by a former period
sequel1837
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 13 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.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 404 The 19th century is what it is as the sequel, not of the 18th 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > sequel or prequel
sequela1513
continuance1552
continuation1580
suite1839
sequelula1912
prequel1958
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > ensuing narrative
sequela1616
sequent1655
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. Prol. f. iiv But of those dedes me lyste nat here to shewe For in the sequele they shall well appere.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. iv What profite..succeded in the realme of England by the vnion of the fornamed two noble families, you shall apparantly perceiue by the sequele of this..history.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 109 Val. I will write..a thousand times as much: And yet—. Sil. A pretty period: well: I ghesse the sequell . View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 147 Which..proved a Babell, a hill of confusion to them in the issue, as you shall hear in the sequill.
1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 94 Wherein how they have either acquitted their Client, or acquighted themselvs, the sequele shal shew.
1689 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. (1694) ii. ii. §15. 176 I moreover affirm, That [etc.]; And I doubt not in the Sequel of this Discourse, to make it very clear.
1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 253. ⁋13 The Sequel of the Proceedings of this Day will be published on Tuesday next.
1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber ix. 174 In Love's Last Shift, and in the Sequel of it, the Relapse.
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. vii. 199 I will only observe, as a sequel of the argument,..the remarkable similitude between the style of St. John's gospel, and of St. John's..epistle.
1856 E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. Introd. p. i The one [work] serves as a sequel to or complement of the other.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xv. 347 This story has an interest of its own, independently of the grander narrative to which it is a close sequel.
1884 D. Hunter tr. E. Reuss Hist. Canon xiii. 244 We shall meet with it again more than once in the sequel of this history.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun] > by position
sequel1707
pre-final1925
post-final1933
1707 E. Lhuyd Archæologia Britannica 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.
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† sequeladj.
Obsolete. rare.
That followed after, subsequent.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent
followingOE
afterOE
nextOE
suinga1325
suant1422
succedentc1450
after-comingc1454
secondary1471
subsequent1472
succeeding1561
supervenient1565
subsequent1568
consequent1581
proceeding1592
ensuing1604
subsecutive1611
sequenta1616
insequentc1620
postliminious1625
sequel1632
postnate1638
supervening1640
descending1642
forward1643
postventional1645
yondersa1650
succrescent1653
pedissequous1657
subsequential1657
assequent1659
post-nated1659
posthume1662
posterious1672
survenient1677
succedent1688
postliminous1714
first1746
sequelled1805
postliminary1826
thereafter1830
descensive1882
akoluthic1889
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 293 The sequell morne, we marched through a fiery faced plaine.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 488 After this, their sequell answere being mortified, and I set at liberty.
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† sequelv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To follow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > succeed or follow [verb (transitive)]
followOE
suec1400
ensue1491
succeed?1526
sequel1594
pursue1658
supervene1661
survene1665
succeed1687
1594 Zepheria xl. sig. F4v If she shall attend what fortunes sequell'd The naufrage of my poor afflicted bark, Then tell [etc.].
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adjective] > succeeding or subsequent
followingOE
afterOE
nextOE
suinga1325
suant1422
succedentc1450
after-comingc1454
secondary1471
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subsequent1568
consequent1581
proceeding1592
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subsecutive1611
sequenta1616
insequentc1620
postliminious1625
sequel1632
postnate1638
supervening1640
descending1642
forward1643
postventional1645
yondersa1650
succrescent1653
pedissequous1657
subsequential1657
assequent1659
post-nated1659
posthume1662
posterious1672
survenient1677
succedent1688
postliminous1714
first1746
sequelled1805
postliminary1826
thereafter1830
descensive1882
akoluthic1889
1805 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1806) 9 254 But ah! who can control his fate? My sequel'd tale I'll brief relate.
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