sequent

UK /ˈsiːkwənt/ US /ˈsiːkwənt/
noun 4adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

That comes after in time or order; subsequent.

Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries? Each night since first the world was made hath had A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.

2

That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent to, on, upon.

But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.

Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.

3

Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.

The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.

noun

1

Something that follows in a given sequence.

The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.

2

A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which

A sequent a,b⊢c,d could be interpreted to correspond to an Existential Graph, whose expression in Existential Graph Interchange Format would be ~[(a) (b) ~[(c)] ~[(d)]], which in ordinary language could be expressed as "a and b give c or d".

3

A follower.

Sir Nathaniel, this Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of progression, hath miscarried.

4

A sequential calculus

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