▪ I. enˈsuing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. ensue, in various senses.
| 1561 Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc i. i, In right ensuynge of your life. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 103 b, The ensuyng of whose studious industry we do not neglect. 1605 Verstegan Dec. Intell. viii. (1628) 242 A iust insuing of the vse of reason. |
▪ II. ensuing, ppl. a. etc.
(ɛnˈsjuːɪŋ)
[f. ensue v. + -ing2.]
A. ppl. adj.
1. In various applications of the sense of ensue v. 5. a. Coming afterwards, subsequent, posterior in time or order (? obs.). b. Immediately subsequent, coming next; also next ensuing. c. That is shortly to happen, approaching, imminent.
| a. 1604 Dekker King's Entertainm. 270 To a more royall and serious ensuing entertainment. 1610 Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. iv. i, A great example of their justice To all ensuing eyes. 1627–77 Feltham Resolves i. xxiv. 43 Men, rather than they will want insuing memory, will be spoken by the branded Statue. 1680 Life Edw. II in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 49 A perfect mirror, wherein ensuing kings may see, etc. |
| b. 1611 Rich Honest. Age (1844) 20 What conceipt I have..I will partly make manifest by this insuing circumstance. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 112 Th' ensuing Season, in return, may bear The bearded product of the Golden Year. 1747 Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) Introd. 27, I have had many Opportunities of trying the Virtues of the ensuing Remedies. 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. xxviii, For the three ensuing days I was in a state of anxiety. 1875 Scrivener Lect. Grk. Test. 11 In the two next ensuing Lectures. |
| c. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 306 By the small number of their army divining their ensuing overthrow. 1678 Trans. Crt. Spain ii. 158 There is appearance of an ensueing rupture. 1734 Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 4/3 The ensuing Elections of Members to serve in parliament. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxxiii, To make some arrangements for the ensuing combat. |
2. In sense of ensue v. 6: Resulting.
| 1604 Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 III. 75 To guard you safe from all ensuing danger. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 290 Their manifest crimes serve to bring forth an ensuing good. 1665 Earl Rothes in Lauderd. Papers (1884) I. 216 To prevent ffurdier inshowieng danger. |
† B. pple. (quasi-prep.). With respect to. Obs.
| 1645–62 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 6) 201 Ensuing this voice, we see that St. Peter calls it, etc. |