||Se*que"la (?), n.; pl. Sequelæ (#). [L., a follower, a result, from
||sequit to follow.] One who, or that which, follows. Specifically: (a)
||An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. "Coleridge and his
||sequela." G. P. Marsh. (b) That which follows as the logical result
||of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
Sequelæ, or thoughts suggested by the preceding aphorisms.
Coleridge.
(c) (Med.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a
disease resulting from another.
Se"quence (s"kwens), n. [F. séquence, L. sequentia, fr. sequens. See
Sequent.] 1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of
following; arrangement.
How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession?
Shak.
Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.
Bacon.
2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence;
result.
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.
Bp. Hall.
3. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without
asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical
agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
4. (Mus.) (a) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or
falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession
of similar harmonic steps. (b) A melodic phrase or passage successively
repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
5. (R.C.Ch.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days,
and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the
gradual or introit, whence the name. Bp. Fitzpatrick.
Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form
was rhythmical prose.
Shipley.
6. (Card Playing) (a) (Whist) Three or more cards of the same suit in
immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or
knave, ten, nine, and eight. (b) (Poker) All five cards, of a hand, in
consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit;
when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
Se"quent (?), a. [L. sequens, -entis, p. pr. of sequi to follow. See
Sue to follow.] 1. Following; succeeding; in continuance.
What to this was sequent Thou knowest already.
Shak.