Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To take place afterward or as a result. synonym: follow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To follow or follow after; pursue.
- To come after; move behind in the same direction; follow.
- To follow in order, or in a train of events or course of time; succeed; come after.
- To follow as a consequence; result, as from premises.
- Synonyms and Succeed, etc. (see
follow ); to arise, proceed, spring, result.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.
- intransitive verb To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
follow (a leader, inclination etc.). - verb To occur afterwards, as a
result oreffect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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A windfall profits tax is exactly how it sounds; it is a higher tax rate on profits that ensue from a sudden windfall gain to a particular company.
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The very same "predictions" ensue from a theoretic holding that life evolves primarily through telic design.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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Joy: The very same "predictions" ensue from a theoretic holding that life evolves primarily through telic design.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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Attacking Iran will finish off the U.S. empire — not that Iran could kill the USA, but the chaos that will ensue is going to be the final straw that kills the economically-sick USA.
Protesting HCR 362 at Nancy Pelosi’s House « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Joy: The very same "predictions" ensue from a theoretic holding that life evolves primarily through telic design.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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“If a particular cause, like the accidental result of a battle, has ruined a state,” wrote Montesquieu in considering the role of chance and contingency in the Roman case, “there was a general cause that made the downfall of this state ensue from a single battle.”
Imperial Follies 2007
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Avoiding incidents like the one that was about to ensue is no doubt an unspoken reason as well.
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“If a particular cause, like the accidental result of a battle, has ruined a state,” wrote Montesquieu in considering the role of chance and contingency in the Roman case, “there was a general cause that made the downfall of this state ensue from a single battle.”
Imperial Follies 2007
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“If a particular cause, like the accidental result of a battle, has ruined a state,” wrote Montesquieu in considering the role of chance and contingency in the Roman case, “there was a general cause that made the downfall of this state ensue from a single battle.”
Imperial Follies 2007
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It's standard scientific procedure to consider the consequences which logically ensue from a proposed hypothesis.
Creationism, defined 2006
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