Sequence

(se'kwěnz.) [From L. sequeno, coming after.] (Games.) A set of cards immediately following each other in the same suit; as a king, queen, knave, . (Mus.) An uninterrupted succe ion of similar sounds rising or falling diatonically.-(Eccl.) In the Roman Catholic Church, a hymn recited or sung immediately before the reading of the gospel in the Ma on certain festival days, and after the introit. [s. 814]