Definition of "ensue"

ensue

/ɪnˈsuː/

verb
third-person singular simple present ensues, present participle ensuing, simple past and past participle ensued
1. (obsolete, transitive) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
  Quotations
  to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew, / Seeking aduentures [...].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii
  To ensue his example in doynge the like mischiefe.
  1606, G. W. Justine, transl., The Historie of Justine
2. (obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to.
  Quotations
  Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.11
3. (intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
  Quotations
  After ſo bad a beginning, whats like to inſue?
  1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I
  Nor, having married coach and bogie design successfully, does it follow that good riding will ensue, whatever the track carrying it—as the performance of B.R. standard coaches on flat-bottom, concrete-sleepered track bears witness.
  1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705