1563 R. Fills tr. T. de Bèze Briefe Summe Christian Faith vii. f. 165 The bishoppe of Rome hath he not his limites & bondes assigned as the other metripolitans had in the first counsell of Nicene confyrmed by the subsequens.

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §52 Let us enter into consideration of the subsequence or sequele thereof.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xxx. 150 Without any more stirre or other subsequence of war [L. sine tumultu, & ijs quae bellum sequi solent].

1637 T. Heywood True Descr. Royall Ship 34 As they comply in the premisses,..they differ not all in the subsequence.

1773 Crit. Rev. Dec. 449 Before the supreme pleasure was tied down to the subsequence of human institutions, brother and sister were allowed, nay they were enjoined to marry.

1828 G. S. Faber Sacred Cal. Prophecy III. vi. ix. 467 The predicted millennium with its concomitants and subsequences.

1872 T. Mills Angels & Heaven vii. 276 It was necessary to connect its antecedents with its subsequences, to follow all that went before, and to precede all that came after.

1921 Bookman Apr. 176/1 The heroine..runs off from her husband to New York where she becomes a physician's secretary with other lurid subsequences.

1983 G. L. Mortimer in H. Bloom W. Faulkner's ‘Sound & Fury’ 114 In his prose, antecedents, subsequences, and environment become a major focus of narrative energy.

2008 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 9 Oct. 2 Because she was kindly all her life, her gentle approach to sickness was a natural subsequence.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xvii. 458 But there was neither precedence nor subsequence in him, to alter or abolish his will [L. in illo autem non alteram praecedentem altera subsequens mutauit aut abstulit uoluntatem].

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. i. iv. §1. 14 With such an order of precedence and subsequence as their natures will bear.

1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. iii. §20 By which Faculty [sc. reminiscence], we are also able, to take notice of the Order of Precedence and Subsequence, in which they are past.

1756 S. Johnson in Lit. Mag. Aug.–Sept. 229/1 It is incident to physicians,..beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles v. 155 The Scripture teaches the absolute subordination of evil to good, and its subsequence of order.

1884 R. Browning Bean-stripe in Ferishtah's Fancies 70 Joy, sorrow,—by precedence, subsequence—Either on each, make fusion.

1908 P. L. MacClintock Lit. in Elem. School iv. 55 Whenever we have the steps of any experience arranged according to any of the laws of subsequence or consequence, we have story.

1995 R. J. Hankinson Sceptics ii. xii. 196 The arguments against causal precedence that Sextus offers will work..just as well against the possibility of causal subsequence.

1847 J. F. W. Herschel Results Astron. Observ. iii. 331 In this case the lower star (γ Crucis) has preserved its place at the bottom of the first sub-sequence (so we may term these temporary groups).

1908 T. J. I'A. Bromwich Introd. Theory Infinite Series i. 16 An oscillatory sequence always contains at least two convergent sub-sequences (those giving the extreme limits).

1958 R. C. Moore Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 2) iv. 80 The second division of the Huronian Sequence, named the Cobalt Sub-sequence, has an aggregate thickness of more than 12,000 feet.

1975 N. Chomsky Logical Struct. Ling. Theory ix. 329 The latter term arrangement must be a subsequence of the former.

2005 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Apr. 28/2 These techniques use subsequences of words to detect the key words often associated with spam.