subsequent

[suhb-si-kwuh nt]

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adjective

occurring or coming later or after (often followed by to): subsequent events; Subsequent to their arrival in Chicago, they bought a new car.

following in order or succession; succeeding: a subsequent section in a treaty.

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Origin of subsequent

1425–75; late Middle English < Latin subsequent- (stem of subsequēns), present participle of subsequī to follow close behind, equivalent to sub- sub- + sequ(ī) to follow + -ent- -ent

Related formssub·se·quent·ly, adverb

Can be confusedconsequent subsequent

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Examples from the Web for subsequent

One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “Evil Empire” were animated by this belief.
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Subsequent emails from Nicola Maccanico, director of Warner Bros.
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Researchers in subsequent decades have indeed documented the violence, sexual and otherwise, that these birds are capable of.
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The woman is identified only by the initials J.W. in court papers from a subsequent federal civil-rights lawsuit.
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These findings, too, are disputed, but in 27 years of subsequent research, no one has disproven them either.
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It was a horrible thought, which subsequent experience unhappily did not tend to dispel.
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Subsequent to the correspondence with Gowrie, in 1582, nothing further is known of these writings.
Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2)|Henry Glassford Bell
Of the subsequent haunts of Alfred Tennyson we can give no very distinct account.
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The second or any subsequent performance was therefore an impossibility.
Giacomo Puccini|Wakeling Dry
To enter into the details of Monk's subsequent administration is impossible here.
Monk|Julian Corbett

British Dictionary definitions for subsequent

subsequent

adjective

occurring after; succeeding

Derived Formssubsequently, adverbsubsequentness, noun

Word Origin for subsequent

C15: from Latin subsequēns following on, from subsequī, from sub- near + sequī to follow

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Word Origin and History for subsequent

subsequent

adj.

mid-15c., from Middle French subséquent (14c.), from Latin subsequentem (nominative subsequens), present participle of subsequi "to follow closely," from sub "closely, up to" (see sub-) + sequi "follow." Related: Subsequently.