Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Subsecute \Sub"se*cute\, v. t. [L. subsecutus, p. p. of
   subsequi. See {Subsequent}.]
   To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.]

         To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he
         could be subsecuted and overtaken.       --E. Hall.