consecute

English

Verb

consecute (third-person singular simple present consecutes, present participle consecuting, simple past and past participle consecuted)

  1. (obsolete) To follow closely; to endeavour to overtake; to pursue.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for consecute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Participle

cōnsecūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of cōnsecūtus
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