subsecute

Definitions

To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue.

Early, Modern, obsolete

Examples

“But when this crafty dissembler Peter Landoyse, which was no wiliar then an old Foxe, perceived that the Earle was departed (thinking that to bee true that hee imagined) Lord how curriours ran into every coast, how lighthorsemen galloped to every streete to follow⟳ and detaine him, if by any possibility hee could bee subsecuted and overtaken, and him to incarcerate and bring⟳ captive into the citie of Vannes.”

“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 […]”

“[…] 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.”

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