PURSUANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pursuant mean? 

• PURSUANT (adjective)
  The adjective PURSUANT has 1 sense:

1. (followed by 'to') in conformance to or agreement with

  Familiarity information: PURSUANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURSUANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(followed by 'to') in conformance to or agreement with

Context example:

pursuant to the dictates of one's conscience

Similar:

consistent ((sometimes followed by 'with') in agreement or consistent or reliable)

Derivation:

pursue (carry further or advance)

 Context examples 

Includes 2253 submissions, requests for advisory on launch materials, requests for advisory on non-launch materials, pre-submission of promotional materials for accelerated approval products, and materials submitted pursuant to 503B.

(Original Regulatory Submission, Food and Drug Administration)

The California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) is a program established pursuant to passage by the California Legislature of the 1993 Breast Cancer Act and responsible for administering funding for breast cancer research in the State of California.

(California Breast Cancer Research Program, NCI Thesaurus)

My master, pursuant to the advice of his friend, carried me in a box the next market-day to the neighbouring town, and took along with him his little daughter, my nurse, upon a pillion behind him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty’s license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That if his majesty, in consideration of your services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he humbly conceived, that by this expedient justice might in some measure be satisfied, and all the world would applaud the lenity of the emperor, as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honour to be his counsellors.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)