sequel

Noun

1. The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
   • Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it then in his fight with Apollyon, as by the ſequel you ſhall ſee. - 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel]...
   • In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894. - 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The...
2. A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.

   1. (by restriction) Synonym of postquel; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.

      Synonyms: postquel

3. Any text that continues on from another text.
   • It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in the sequel. - 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 159:
4. The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
   • In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]). - 1964, Hans Freudenthal, “Lie Groups in the...
5. Thirlage.
6. A person's descendants.