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Definition of Subsequent

1. Adjective. Following in time or order. "Subsequent developments"

Definition of Subsequent

1. a. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.

Definition of Subsequent

1. Adjective. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely. ¹

2. Adjective. Following in order of place; succeeding. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subsequent

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsequent

Literary usage of Subsequent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1853)
"AN ACT providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent censuses of the United States, and to fix the number of members of the House of ..."

2. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"AN ACT providing for tlie taking of the seventh and subsequent censuses of the United States., and to fix the number of members of the House of ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"It won enthusiastic praise from scholars of the day, and in subsequent times from ... It brought Colman, in subsequent years, a letter from Voltaire, ..."

4. The Civil Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"A prior will is not revoked by a subsequent Revocation will, unless the latter contains an express revocation, subsequent or provisions wholly inconsistent ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of the Statute of Frauds: And of Other Like Enactments by Henry Reed (1884)
"subsequent alteration of written contract generally valid. ? 441. ... The general rule in equity as to subsequent oral modification of a writing. ..."

6. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"When the "critical value of inhibition" (ie, with respect to subsequent ... The critical value for subsequent excitation lay between 24 and 32 units with ..."

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