subsecuteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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. 1513–1518 (date written), Thomas More, “The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third. The Third Yeere.”, in The Historie of the Pitifvll Life, and Unfortunate Death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke His Brother: […], London: […] Thomas Payne and M[atthew] Simmons, published 1641, →OCLC, page 357:

     But vvhen this crafty diſſembler Peter Landoyſe, vvhich vvas no vviliar then an old Foxe, perceived that the Earle vvas departed (thinking that to bee true that hee imagined) Lord hovv curriours ran into every coaſt, hovv lighthorſemen galloped to every ſtreete to follovv and detaine him, if by any poſsibility hee could bee ſubſecuted and overtaken, and him to incarcerate and bring captive into the citie of Uannes.

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

     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 […]‎, 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.

参照

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