Sue vs Prosecute - What's the difference?
sue | prosecute |
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
(legal) To start criminal proceedings against.
* Milton
(legal) To charge, try.
To seek to obtain by legal process.
To pursue something to the end.
* Shakespeare
In transitive terms the difference between sue and prosecute
is that sue is to seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead while prosecute is to pursue something to the end.As verbs the difference between sue and prosecute
is that sue is to follow while prosecute is to start criminal proceedings against.As a proper noun Sue
is a diminutive of Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name.As a noun Sue
is a Mary Sue (type of character in fiction).sue
English
Verb
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "sue")Derived terms
* sue for peaceAnagrams
* * ----prosecute
English
Verb
(prosecut)- to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
- To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.
- to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law
- to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim
- I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?