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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(Early Modern, obsolete) To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue..
But when this crafty dissembler Peter Landoyse, which was no wiliar then an old Foxe, perceived that the Earle was departed (thinking that to bee true that hee imagined) Lord how curriours ran into every coast, how lighthorsemen galloped to every streete to follow and detaine him, if by any possibility hee could bee subsecuted and overtaken, and him to incarcerate and bring captive into the citie of Vannes.
For after he sée that the Argiraspides and the rest of Eumenes footemen, had subsecuted and chased his Souldiers vnto the foote of the hill, and had therby broken their aray, and were diuided, he straightways charged the flanke of Eumenes right wing […]
[…] ley suffer silch miseries & oppressions as vulle [will] yet dayly increase & multiply into a total desolation […] if not opportunely prevented, [by] an uniforme agreement […] let us then have thist, & cetera omnia adjicientur nobis [and all the rest will be added for us], thel rest vulle subsecute & foloe.
Use subsecute when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Subsecute means (Early Modern, obsolete) To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But when this crafty dissembler Peter Landoyse, which was no wiliar then an old Foxe, perceived that the Earle was departed (thinking that to bee true that hee imagined) Lord how curriours ran into every coast, how lighthorsemen galloped to every streete to follow and detaine him, if by any possibility hee could bee subsecuted and overtaken, and him to incarcerate and bring captive into the citie of Vannes.
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