What is "sequitur"

Usage examples of "sequitur".

Mulier debet uelamen habere super caput suum propter Angelos: Multi Catholici exponunt quod sequitur, propter angelos, id est Incubos.

She was a woman of a certain reputation and famous for her bluntness, thick skin, memorable malapropisms and amazingly inventive non sequiturs.

Kimmer, who likes to pepper her conversation with the occasional Afrocentric non sequitur.

DeLillo has no time for anarchic pratfalls, Aristophanic gambits, non sequiturs.

I'm still afflicted with just enough self-will to decline to live by utter non sequiturs, as opposed to just good old cliches, I'm taking the liberty of light amendment.

Explicit secunda pars Sequitur pars tercia I trowe men wolde deme it necligence, If I foryete to tellen the dispence Of Theseus, that gooth so bisily To maken up the lystes roially.

It seems to me inconceivable that he would accept so quickly the resignation of an old friend on the grounds that, out of office, Belknap might be able to protect his wife—a perfect non sequitur, since a high official is always in a better position to thwart justice than the plain citizen.

After you have watched them a while, you realize that these ultra-new people have fallen victim to the oldest form of logical fallacy, the non sequitur, and likewise to the oldest form of slavery, which is self-indulgence.

This was why satires were always sloppy and ill-timed, with sudden silences and absurd non sequiturs abounding.

Things that might look like non sequiturs appear different if you know the context that appears out of nowhere.

But it's also wise to remember that the Minbari have learned that a good way to avoid answering a question or talking about an issue they don't want to get into is to reply with a non sequitur, or say something inscrutable or downright incomprehensible.