subsecute means to follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SUBSECUTE — [Verb] To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. From Latin subsecūtus, past participle of subsequor, from sub- ("under, close after") and sequor ("to follow"). Unlike "pursue," which implies a determined effort toward a goal, or "succeed," which neutrally marks a sequence in time, to subsecute is to shadow with intimate and imminent pressure. It is the second wave consuming the first before it can retreat, the footfall heard just beyond the curve of the path, the second raindrop tracing the exact trail of its predecessor down the glass—a quiet, mechanical fidelity that erases all distance. We are all being subsecuted by the selves we have just ceased to be.
verb
- 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 ”