Definitions for sequent

sequent se·quent

Spelling: [see-kwuh nt]
IPA: /ˈsi kwənt/

Sequent is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in sequent (eenqstu).

Definitions for sequent

noun

  1. something that follows in order or as a result.

adjective

  1. following; successive.
  2. following logically or naturally; consequent.
  3. characterized by continuous succession; consecutive.

Origin of sequent

1550-60; Latin sequent- (stem of sequēns, present participle of sequī to follow), equivalent to sequ- follow + -ent- -ent

Examples for sequent

Lower, come the opposing curves in the two boats, the whole forming one group of sequent lines up the whole side of the picture.

He never wove these memories into a sequent romance, though in later time he thought of so doing.

If the Yankee were quick at work, he fulfilled the other sequent of the adage likewise.

Harry's game of cards in the freight-car had been a sequent of the game in the chapel.

They are therefore implicated in the consequences of any resolution and every sequent act.

None the less, when viewed in their dynamical relation, the latter must be regarded as sequent upon the former.

The principle of causality is already applied when the sequent experiences are apprehended as sequent events.

Nor sequent centuries could hit / Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

Since White Fell had parted to the right, Christian to the left, the event of a sequent encounter did not occur to him.

The theory of evolution is thus primarily the history of an order of sequent facts and relations.

Word Value for sequent
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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