Pōr'sūi-vant1, n.
n. The same as PURSUIVANT.
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Pursuivant
Pâr’süi-vant2, n.
(-swe-), n. [Fr. poursuivant, from poursuivre. See PURSUANT and PURSUE.]
Sense 1. A state messenger; an attendant on the heralds.
One pursuivant who attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered. Macaulay.
The herald Hope forerunning Fear, And Fear the pursuivant of Hope. Longfellow.
Sense 2. (Heralds’ College.) A junior officer who afterward succeeded to higher employments.
Pār'sui-vant3, v. t.
v. t. To follow after; to pursue. [Obs. and rare.] Their navy was pursuivanted after with a horrible tempest. Fuller.