pursuant

English

Alternative forms

• pursuaunt (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Anglo-Norman pursuant, present participle of pursure. Doublet of pursuivant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsjuː.ənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsu.ənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

pursuant (comparative more pursuant, superlative most pursuant)

1. In conformance to, or in agreement with; used with to.
   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann:

     And pursuant to this idea of a holiday, he insisted upon playing cards after we had eaten.

Related terms

• pursue

Translations

in conformance to, or in agreement with

Bulgarian: съгласуван (bg) (sǎglasuvan), съобразен (bg) (sǎobrazen) Finnish: mukainen (fi) French: en conformité avec German: gemäß (de) Hungarian: szerinti (hu) Italian: in conformità, in accordo Korean: 응(應)하는 (eunghaneun), 준(準)하는 (junhaneun) (both in the legal sense) Polish: zgodnie z, stosownie do Portuguese: em conformidade com Russian: соотве́тствующий (ru) (sootvétstvujuščij) Spanish: de acuerdo a Swedish: i enlighet med (sv) Turkish: mucibince (tr), uyarınca (tr)

Adverb

pursuant (comparative more pursuant, superlative most pursuant)

1. Accordingly; consequently.

Translations

accordingly, consequently

Arabic: عَمَلاً بِ (ʕamalan bi) Bulgarian: съответно (bg) (sǎotvetno) Finnish: mukaisesti (fi), mukaan (fi), nojalla (fi) French: conformément (fr) German: gemäß (de) Greek: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: szerint (hu) Italian: in conformità, in applicazione, in forza Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Korean: 따라서 (ko) (ttaraseo) Latin: prō tenōre (post-classical jurisprudence) Polish: zgodnie z, stosownie do Russian: соотве́тственно (ru) (sootvétstvenno), согла́сно (ru) (soglásno), в соответствии (v sootvetstvii) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пре̏ма Roman: prȅma Spanish: según (es), con arreglo (es) a

See also

• as per

Anagrams

• usurpant

Old French

Verb

pursuant

1. present participle of pursure