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.
Sequent
(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. 2. Following as an effect; consequent.
Sequent
(Se"quent), n.
1. A follower. [R.] Shak.
2. That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Sequential
(Se*quen"tial) a. Succeeding or following in order. — Se*quen"tial*ly, adv.
Sequester
(Se*ques"ter) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestering.] [F. séquestrer,
L. sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a depositary or trustee in whose hands the
thing contested was placed until the dispute was settled. Cf. Sequestrate.]
1. (Law) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the
possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another,
and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the
decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to
enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of
ecclesiastics.
Blackstone. 2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property,
etc.
It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
South. 3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
Bacon. 4. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; — often used reflexively.
When men most sequester themselves from action.
Hooker.
A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation.
Bacon.
