sepulcher 
The Holy Sepulcher, the sepulcher in which the body 
of Christ lay between his burial and resurrection. Its site 
is now doubtful or disputed, though professedly marked 
since very early times by a church at Jerusalem. 
sepulcher, sepulchre (sep'ul-ker, formerly also 
se-pul'ker), c. t. ; pret. and pp. sepulchereil, sep- sequaciously (se-kwa'shus-li), adv. In turn or 
u'li'lircil, ppr. xcpiilclit'riiii/, xc/mlcliriiig. [< sep- succession; one after another. 
sequaciousness (se-kwa'shus-nes), n. Sequa- 
cious character or disposition; disposition to 
follow; sequacity. 
[This use of the word is peculiar to Coleridge 
and his admirers.] 
The motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequa- 
cious. De Quinceu. 
To bury; inter; entomb. 
ulchcr, n.j 
But I am glad to see that time survive 
Where merit is uot sepulchred alive. 
B. Jonson, Epigrams, To Robert, Earl of Salisbury. 
And so sepulchereil, in such pomp dost lie, 
That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die. 
Milton, Ep. on Shakspeare, 1. 15. sequacity (se-kwas i-ti), n 
The servility and sequacioumess of conscience. 
Jar. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomeness, p. 181. 
r , ,. r 
[< ML. sequaci- 
sepulcher, < sepulcrum, sepulcher: see sepul- 
(/).] 1. Of or pertaining to a sepulcher or 
tomb; connected with burial or the grave; 
erected on a grave or to the memory of the 
dead: as, a sepulchral stone or statue. 
Our wasted oil unprofltably burns, 
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. 
Cowper, Conversation, 1. 358. 
2. Suggestive of a sepulcher or tomb. Hence 
(a) Deep ; grave ; hollow in tone : as, a sepulchral voice. 
(6) Gloomy ; funereal ; solemn. 
A dismal grove of sable yew, 
With whose sad tints were mingled seen 
The blighted fir's sepulchral green.^ ^^ ^ ^ 
Sepulchral cone, a small conical vessel, especially Egyp- 
tian, in which the mummy of a bird or other small animal 
has been interred. They are usually furnished with cov. 
ers. Sepulchral cross. See crossi, 2. Sepulchral 
mound. See barr&wl, 3. 
low; sequaciousness. 
Liberty of judgement seemeth almost lost either in lazy 
or blind gequacity of other men's'votes. 
W hitlock, Manners of English People, p. 207. 
It proved them to be hypotheses, on which the credu- 
lous sequacity of philosophers had bestowed the prescrip- 
tive authority of self-evident truths. Sir W. Hamilton. 
2f. Ductility; pliableness. 
All matter whereof creatures are produced by putrefac- 
tion have evermore a closeness, sentour, and sequacitie. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 900. 
sequannock (se-kwan'ok), n. [Amer. Ind.] 
Same as poquauhoek. Aoger Williams. 
sequel (se'kwel), n. [Formerly also sequell, se- 
quele; < OF. sequelle, sequele, sequel, conse- 
quence, following, train, F. sequelle, a band, 
gang, series, string, = Pr. sequela = Sp. secuela 
= Pg. sequela = It. sequela, seguela, sequel, con- 
sequence, < LL. sequela, sequella, that which 
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sepulchralize (se-pul kral-iz), v. t. ; pret. and followSi a follower, result, consequence, sequel, 
pp. sKpulchralised^ ppr. sepulchralizing. [< se- 
pulchral + -4ze.] To render sepulchral or sol- 
emn. [Bare.] Imp. Diet. 
sepulchre, - and v. See sepulcher. 
sepultural (se-pul'tu-ral), a. [< sepulture + 
-al.] Of or pertaining to sepulture or burial. 
Belon published a history of conifers and a treatise on 
the funeral monuments and sepultural usages of the an- 
cients and the substances used by them for the preserva- 
tion of bodies. Pop. Sri. Mo., XXXIV. 697. 
sepulture (sep'ul-tur), . [< ME. sepulture, 
sepultur, < O . sepulture, sepouture, F. sepulture 
= Pr. sepultura, sebultura = Sp. Pg. sepultura 
It. sepoltura, sepultura, < L. sepultura, burial, 
< sepelire, pp. sepultus, bury : see sepulcher.] 1. 
Burial ; interment ; the act of depositing the 
dead body of a human being in a burial-placfi. 
That blissed man ncuer had sepulture; 
Wilbelouid sir, this you say sertain. 
Horn, of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3404. 
He foretold, and verified it, that himself would rise 
from the dead after three days' sepulture. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 238. 
The common rites of sepulture bestow, 
To soothe a father's and a mother's woe. 
Pope, Iliad, xxii. 429. 
2f. Grave ; burial-place ; sepulcher ; tomb. 
But whan ye comen by my sepulture, 
Remembreth that youre felowe resteth there. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 327. 
Oh my soule ! what be all these thinges, but certeine 
cruell summoners, that cite my life to inhabit* the sor- 
rowful sepulture? 
Ouevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 135. 
Euripides had his tomb in Africa, but his sepulture in 
Macedonia. Sir T. Browne, Urn-burial, iii. 
sepulture (sep'ul-tur), v. 1. ; pret. and pp. sep- 
ultured, ppr. sepuliuring. [< OF. sepulturer, 
bury, < sepulture, burial : see sepulture, n.] To 
bury; entomb; sepulcher. Cowper. [Rare.] 
sepurture (sep'er-tur), a. [Origin obscure.] 
In her., raised above the back and opened: not- 
ing the wings of a bird: as, a falcon's wings 
sepurture. Berry. 
sequacious (se-kwa'shus), . [< L. sequax (-ac-), 
following or seeking after, < sequi, follow, pur- 
sue: see sequent.] 1. Following; attendant; 
adhering; disposed to follow a leader. 
Trees unrooted left their place, 
Sequacious of the lyre. 
Dryden, St. Cecilia's Day, 1. 50. 
The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent 
among the sequacious thinkers of the day. 
Sir W. Hamilton. 
And now, its strings 
Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes 
Over delicious surges sink and rise. 
Coleridge, The Eolian Harp. 
2f. Ductile; pliant; manageable. 
ML. also a following, train, etc., < L. sequi, 
follow: see sequent.] 1. That which follows 
and forms a continuation; a succeeding part: 
as, the sequel of a man's adventures or his- 
tory. 
0, let me say no more ! 
Gather the sequel by what went before. 
Shak.,C. of E., 1. 1.98. 
The sequel of the tale 
Had touch'd her. 
Tennyson, Princess, Conclusion. 
2. Consequence; result; event. 
The commodites and good sequele of vertue, the discom- 
modies and euyll conclusion of vicious licence. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, i. 11. 
Adversity, . , . an occasion of many men's falling from 
thing 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 48. 
I argue thus : The World agrees 
That he writes well who writes with Ease : 
Then he, by Sequel logical, 
Writes best who never thinks at all. 
Prior, To Fleetwood Shepherd. 
The chaunces of this present life haue in themselues 
alone no more goode or euil than according to their sequele 
and effect they bring. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 322. 
The sequel of to-day unsolders all 
The goodliest fellowship of famous knights 
Whereof this world holds record. 
Tennyson, Morte D'Arthur. 
3. Consequence inferred; consequentialness. 
[Rare.] 
What sequel is there in this argument? An "archdea- 
con is the chief deacon": ergo, he is only a deacon. 
Whitgtft, Works (Parker Soc.), I. 305. 
4f. Succession ; order. 
The king hath granted every article : 
His daughter first, and then in sequel all, 
According to their firm proposed natures. 
Shak., Hen. V., v. 2. 361. 
5f. Those who follow or come after; descen- 
dants. 
A goodly meane both to deterre from crime 
And to her steppes our sequele to enflame. 
Surrey, Death of Sir T. W. 
6. In Scots law. See thirlage. 
sequela (se-kwe'la), n.; pi. sequela (-le). [L., 
that which follows, a follower: see sequel.] 
That which follows ; a following, (a) A band of 
adherents. (6) An inference ; a conclusion ; a corollary. 
Sequela:; or thoughts suggested by the preceding apho- 
rism. 
Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, Aphorisms on Spiritual 
[Religion, ix. 
(c) In pathol., the consequent of a disease ; a morbid af- 
fection which follows another, as cardiac disease after 
acute rheumatism, etc. Sequela causse, the processand 
. .. depending issue of a cause for trial. Sequela curise, in 
In the greater bodies the forge was easie the matter ( game as mit f cmirt (whicn 8eej under ma) . 
%W.S&&SnU&t&Sd sequence (se'kwens), n. [< ME. sequence, < 
into such shapes and machines, even by clumsie fingers. OF. sequence, a sequence at cards, answering 
Bay, Works of Creation, ii. verses, F. sequence = Sp. secuencia = Pg. se- 
3. Logically consistent and rigorous; consec- qnencia = It. seguenza, < LL. sequentia, a follow- 
utive in development or transition of thought. ing,< L. sequen(t-)it, following: see sequent.] 1. 
sequent 
A following or coming after ; connection of con- 
sequent to antecedent in order of time or of 
thought; succession. 
How art thou a king 
But by fair sequence and succession ? 
Shale., Rich. II., ii. 1. 199. 
Arms and learning, whereof the one correspondeth to 
the body, the other to the soul of man, have a concurrence 
or near sequence in times. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 1. 16. 
The idea of Time in its most primitive form is probably 
the recognition of an order of sequence in our states of 
consciousness. 
J. Cleric Maxwell, Matter and Motion, art. xvil. 
We cannot frame ideas of Co-existence, of Sequence, and 
of Difference without there entering into them ideas of 
quantity. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 93. 
Causality, which, as a pure conception, expresses the 
relation of reason and consequent, becomes schematised 
as invariable sequence. E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 412. 
2. Order of succession or following in time or 
in logical arrangement; arrangement; order. 
Athens, in the sequence of degree 
From high to low throughout. 
Shak., T. of A., v. 1. 211. 
Writing in my dungeon of Micham without dating, have 
made the chronology and sequence of my letters perplexed 
to you. Donne, Letters, vi. 
Weber next considers the sequence of tenses in Homeric 
final sentences. 
B. L. Gttdersleeve, Amer. Jour. Philol., IV. 426. 
3. An instance of uniformity in successive fol- 
lowing. 
He who sees in the person of his Redeemer a fact more 
stupendous and more majestic than all those observed se- 
quences which men endow with an imaginary omnipo- 
tence, and worship under the name of Law to him, at 
least, there will be neither difficulty nor hesitation in sup- 
posing that Christ . . . did utter his mandate, and that 
the wind and the sea obeyed. 
Farrar, Life of Christ, I. xxiii. 
4. A series of things following in a certain or- 
der, as a set of cards (three or more) immedi- 
ately following one after another in order of 
value, as king, queen, knave, etc.; specifically, 
in poker, a "straight." 
In the advertisement of a book on America, I see in the 
table of contents this sequence, "Republican Institutions, 
American Slavery, American Ladies." 
Marg. Fuller, Woman in 19th Cent., p. 30. 
The only mode by which their ages [those of caves at 
Ellora] could be approximated was by arranging them in 
sequences, according to our empirical or real knowledge 
of the history of the period during which they were sup. 
posed to have been excavated. 
J. Ferffusson, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 440. 
To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort 
Her mingled suits and sequence*. 
Cowper, Task, i. 475. 
5. In music, a series of melodic or harmonic 
phrases or groups repeated three or more times 
at successive pitches upward or downward, 
usually without modulation or chromatic devia- 
tion from the key. The interval between the repe- 
titions may be uniformly a half-step, a whole step, or even 
a longer interval, or it may vary diatonically between a 
step and a half-step. When the repetition is precise in- 
terval for interval, the sequence is called exact, real, or 
chromatic; when it uses only the tones of the key, it is 
tonal or diatonic. Compare rosalia. Also called progres- 
sion and sequentia. 
Melodious sequence owes a considerable part of its ex- 
pressive character to its peculiar pleasurable effect on the 
mind. J. Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 226. 
6. In liturgies, a hymn in rhythmical prose or 
in accentual meter sung in the Western Church 
after the gradual (whence the name) and be- 
fore the gospel. The sequence is identical with the 
prose (which see), or the name is given to such a hymn 
as used in this part of the liturgy. In medieval times a 
great number of sequences were in use, and a different 
selection of them in different places. At present in the 
Roman Catholic Church only four are retained. 
Ther clerkis synge beTsequens. 
Boly Xood(E. E. T. S.), p. 218. 
Halleluiatic sequence. See halleluiatic. Sequence 
Of tenses, a rule or usage by which, in deviation from 
the strict requirements of sense, one tense is followed by 
another according with it : as, he thought it was so ; one 
might know it was true. Also consecution of tenses. 
sequent (se'kwent), a. and . [< L. sequen(t-)s, 
ppr. of sequi, follow, < Gr. eirtcQai, follow, = Skt. 
\/ sac/i, follow; prob. = Goth, saihwan .= AS. 
seon, see: see see 1 . From the L. sequi are also 
ult. E. consequent, subsequent, consequence, exe- 
cute, persecute, prosecute, consecutive, executive, 
etc., exequies, obsequies, sequel, sequester, sec- 
on(Jl, second^, secondary, etc., sue, ensue, pursue, 
suant, pursuant, suit, suite, suitable, suitor, pur- 
suit, pursuivant, etc.] I. a. 1. Continuing in 
the same course or order; following; succeed- 
ing. 
The galleys 
Have sent a dozen sequent messengers 
This very night at one another's heels. 
Shak., Othello, i. 2. 41. 
