sequent
Americanadjective
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following; successive.
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following logically or naturally; consequent.
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characterized by continuous succession; consecutive.
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sequents
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adjective
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following in order or succession
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following as a result; consequent
noun
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something that follows; consequence
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logic a formal representation of an argument. The inference of A from A & B is written A & B ̃⊢ A. The sequent ̃⊢ A represents the derivation of A from no assumptions and thus indicates that A is a theorem
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Origin of sequent
1550–60; < Latin sequent- (stem of sequēns, present participle of sequī to follow), equivalent to sequ- follow + -ent- -ent
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Bellow's sub sequent novel, Henderson the Rain King, rambled even more; and in Herzog the tension has snapped completely in a flood of good will.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there is no indication that sub sequent crops on the same land are affected by the chemical dousing.
From Time Magazine Archive
To have contrived such an elaborate allegory, so welded link by sequent link together, seems an exercise of logical patience to which Blake would hardly have submitted his passionate genius, his overstrained and wayward will.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Parents, physician, and nurses no doubt witnessed from day to day such anomalous and changeful manifestations, sequent upon the administration of “physic,” as confounded their judgments, and made them at last suspect “an evil hand.”
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Further, you remember that on the edges of the broad side of feathers you find always a series of undulations, irregularly sequent, and lapping over each other like waves on sand.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin
As the volition itself appears by an absolute necessity in relation to the individual man, so also do the stated sequents or effects of volition appear by an absolute necessity in relation to him.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
We learn from experience, that volitions have sequents in external nature, or in parts of our being, external to will; but this experience teaches us nothing respecting the production of volitions.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
We have seen how every volition is connected with its motive; how the motive lies in a pre-constitution; how the series of antecedents and sequents necessarily runs back and connects itself with the infinite wisdom.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
Thus in men we do not observe the volition or nisus in their wills, but the phenomena which form the sequents of the nisus.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
And the connexion between volition and its sequents is just as necessary as the connexion between volition and its motives.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
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