Is the word non-sequitur in your paper dictionary, if so in what section?

I don’t have a paper dictionary handy anymore. I gave that up about 15 years ago.

But I looked in the 1913 Webster’s at Project Gutenberg. Non sequitur is listed as a normal word between “nonsensitive” and “nonsexual”.

Here is the 1913 Webster’s entry:

NON SEQUITUR
Non seq“ui*tur. Etym: [L., it does not follow.] (Logic)
Defn: An inference which does not follow from the premises.

I haven’t had a paper dictionary in eons.
All our words are foreign somewhere down the line. Non-sequitur is Latin.

I have a paper dictionary, and it is there, between nonsensitive and nonsexual, as @Call_Me_Jay ‘s is.

It’s actually in two places, not right after each other.

In the “n“s between nonsense and nonskid.

By rights, if the word were placed according to its meaning and not its spelling, it should lead the dictionary, shouldn’t it? I’ll have to dig out one of my bound dictionaries and get back to you.

However, I would expect to find it listed with any other collection on n-o-n-s* words, AND in the foreign language section in my American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Can’t confirm that right now, though.

The individual words are in my Latin dictionary, since non sequitur is Latin.

It is in with the English words in all three of my English dictionaries, under NONS…

(@elbanditoroso That is very funny! ... not sure if it was meant to be, but it is!)

@dabbler – it was meant to be, but it was deliberately subtle to see if anyone got the joke. You win the gold star.

^I must be missing something. Were you playing with the meaning of non-sequential?

Here, @LostInParadise. It’s pretty funny, given the meaning of non-sequitur. From @Call_Me_Jay‘s post, the first post in the thread. “Non seq“ui*tur. Etym: [L., it does not follow.] (Logic)”

Okay, I get it.

@Call_Me_Jay and @everyone,
Would you please click on 1913 Webster’s at Project Gutenberg (the link in @Call_Me_Jay‘s post), and see what you find?

@flo The Gutenberberg link has two versions of the dictionary to download – HTML and Plain Text. picture

For some reason I couldn’t find a searchable version online at that moment.

Here’s better link that goes right to the definition:
Webster’s 1913 Dictionary – Non sequitur

@Call_Me_Jay Ok.
But that’s an online dictionary, which I believe anthing searched can be found~

But…you asked us all, and @Call_Me_Jay, in particular to specifically look it up on the 1913 Project Gutenberg link. Very few people have hard back dictionaries on hand any more, and certainly not one dating to 1913 (unless I’m misunderstanding something.)
Perhaps you should make a trip to your local library to research this.