Sequent

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈsiːkwÉ™nt/

Origin

From Old French sequent, from Latin sequentem, present participle of sequi ("to follow").

Full definition of sequent

Adjective

1. (obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
• 1860, James Thomson (B.V.), Two Sonnets:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sadAs funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?Each night since first the world was made hath hadA sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
2. (now rare) That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent to, on, upon.
• c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession:
  Immediate sentence then, and sequent death,
  Is all the grace I beg.
• 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
3. Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
• c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, I.2:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers
  This very night, at one anothers heeles:
  And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met,
  Are at the Dukes already.

Noun

1. Something that follows in a given sequence.
• 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
2. (logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
3. (obsolete) A follower.

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