subsecutes

Verb

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.
   • 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...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...