Word Meanings - SUBSECUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could be subsecuted and overtaken. E. Hall.

Related words: (words related to SUBSECUTE)

• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• COULD
  Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
• DETAINMENT
  Detention. Blackstone.
• SUBSECUTIVE
  Following in a train or succession.
• SUBSECUTE
  To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could be subsecuted and overtaken. E. Hall.
• PURSUE
  poursuivre, fr. L. prosequi; pro forward + sequi to follow. See Sue, 1. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare. We happiness pursue; we fly from pain. Prior. The happiness of men lies
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• DETAINER
  1. One who detains. The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law. A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison
• POSSIBILITY
  1. The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing. "All possibility of error." Hooker. "Latent possibilities of excellence." Johnson. 2. That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that
• DETAINDER
  A writ. See Detinue.
• PURSUER
  A plaintiff; a prosecutor. (more info) 1. One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
• CLOSELY
  1. In a close manner. 2. Secretly; privately. That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.
• OVERTAKE
  1. To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with. Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good. Gen. xliv. 4. He had him overtaken in his flight. Spenser.
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• DETAIN
  1. To keep back or from; to withhold. Detain not the wages of the hireling. Jer. Taylor. 2. To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. Let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for
• FOLLOW
  fylgan; akin to D. volgen, OHG. folg, G. folgen, Icel. fylgja, Sw. 1. To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with ; to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. Shak. 2. To endeavor
• IMPOSSIBILITY
  1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. South. 2. An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley. 3. Inability;
• UNPOSSIBILITY
  Impossibility. "Utter unpossibility." Poe.
• UNDERFOLLOW
  To follow closely or immediately after. Wyclif.