subsecute

English

Etymology

From Latin subsecūtus, past participle of subsequor (“follow close after”). See subsequent.

Verb

subsecute (third-person singular simple present subsecutes, present participle subsecuting, simple past and past participle subsecuted)

1. (Early Modern, obsolete) To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue.
   • c. 1509, Thomas More, The Historie of the Pitifvll Life, and unfortunate Death of Edward the fifth […]‎^[1], published 1641, page 357:

     But when this crafty dissembler Peter Landoyse, which was no wiliar then an old Foxe, perceived that the Earle was departed (thinking that to bee true that hee imagined) Lord how curriours ran into every coast, how lighthorsemen galloped to every streete to follow and detaine him, if by any possibility hee could bee subsecuted and overtaken, and him to incarcerate and bring captive into the citie of Vannes.

   • 1569, Thomas Stocker, transl., A righte noble and pleasant History of the Successors of Alexander surnamed the Great […]‎^[2], folios 58^v–59^r:

     For after he sée that the Argiraspides and the rest of Eumenes footemen, had subsecuted and chased his Souldiers vnto the foote of the hill, and had therby broken their aray, and were diuided, he straightways charged the flanke of Eumenes right wing […]

   • 1648, Angland in a Ballance […]‎^[3], page 2:

     […] ley suffer silch miseries & oppressions as vulle [will] yet dayly increase & multiply into a total desolation […] if not opportunely prevented, [by] an uniforme agreement […] let us then have thist, & cetera omnia adjicientur nobis [and all the rest will be added for us], thel rest vulle subsecute & foloe.

References

• “subsecute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

subsecūte

1. vocative masculine singular of subsecūtus