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▪ I. consequent, n.|ˈkɒnsɪkwənt|
[a. F. conséquent, ad. L. consequens, -ent-, a consequence, subst. use of pr. pple.: see next.]
†1. = consequence 1. Obs. exc. as in b.
c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋421 (Harl. MS.) Let vs now examyne þe þridde poynt þat Tullius clepeþ consequente. Þou schalt vnderstonde þat þe vengeance þat þou purposiddest for to take is consequent [Ellesm. the consequent]. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. clxxxix, That haue convoyit hale..My lufe and to [so] glade a consequent. 1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 189 By certeine effects and consequents, we are fully assured. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 236 So great was the consequent of this prosperous and easie invention. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 226 The neglect of which has frequently been the cause of very dismal consequents in those warm climates.
b. (Contrasted with antecedent.) A phenomenon or event which follows another (without implication of causal connexion).
a1627W. Sclater Expos. Rom. iv. (1650), Faith is an antecedent, no cause properly of justification; justification [is] a consequent of believing, no effect issuing out of the virtue and merit of faith. 1650Hobbes Hum. Nature iv. (R.), When a man hath so often observed like antecedents to be followed by like consequents. 1829Jas. Mill Anal. Hum. Mind (1878) I. xi. 350 The word cause means the antecedent of a consequent where the connection is constant. 1872H. Spencer Psychol. I. ii. iii. 194 A constant ratio between the physical antecedent and the psychical consequent. 1878Morley Carlyle Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 199 The effect is the inevitable consequent of the cause.
†2. Logic. = consequence 3. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. ix. 84 Þan folweþ it quod she þat we adden clernesse of renoun to þe þre forseide þinges..and þis is a consequente quod I. 1529More Supplic. Soulys Wks. 315/1 A very child almoste may see the consequent. 1593Bilson Govt. Christ's Ch. 12 Happily may no necessarie consequent be drawen. 1647Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery i. (1686) 87 The consequent of this is, that by the law of Christ, one Bishop is not superior to another. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. i. 214 Do they so say expressly; or is it only a consequent of their Doctrine? 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 267 Who..will conceive it ever feasible to alter any fundamental point of the common law, with all it's appendages and consequents. 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic xv. I. 282 The Syllogism is divided into two parts, the Antecedent and the Consequent—the antecedent comprehending the two propositions [premisses]..and the consequent comprising the one proposition [the conclusion].
b. The second part of a conditional proposition, dependent upon the antecedent.
1628T. Spencer Logick 231 There is required vnto the truth of a Conditionall proposition, that the Consequent follow vpon the Antecedent. 1746Wesley Princ. Methodist 35 The Antecedent is false. Therefore the Consequent falls of course. 1876Jevons Elem. Logic (1880) 162 The only rule..requisite for testing the validity of [hypothetical] syllogisms..viz. that either the antecedent must be affirmed, or the consequent denied.
3. (Contrasted with antecedent.) Anything which follows something else in order, e.g. in the context of a writing.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus, To Rdr., By the helpe of..comparing of Scriptures with themselues, antecedents with consequents, obscure places with plainer. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 70 The consideration of antecedents and consequents..the testimonies, expositions, and translations of the ancients, etc. help to rectify a corruption crept in. 1660Bp. Parry David Restored lxxiii, And this, the consequents do sufficiently evidence.
b. Math. The second of two numbers or magnitudes in a ratio; the second and fourth in a series of four proportionals.
1570Billingsley Euclid v. 127 The second Terme, namely, that wherunto the comparison is made, is called the consequent. 1594Blundevil Exerc. i. xx. (ed. 7) 46 When the Antecedent contayneth the Consequent more then once, and nothing remayneth, as 4 to 2. 1827Hutton Course Math. I. 120 The sum of the antecedents is to their difference, as the sum of the consequents is to their difference.
c. Mus. (See quot.)
1869Ouseley Counterp. xv. 95 The leading part [in a Canon] is called the antecedent, the following part the consequent.
†4. A person who follows or comes after; a follower; also, one who pursues. Obs.
1550Nicolls Thucyd. 49 (R.) These were the allyes and consequentes, and also the preparations of the one partye, and of the other. 1609Man in Moone in Halliw. Character-Bks. (1857) 95 He is the ante-ambulo of a gentlewoman, the consequent of a gentleman, the antecedent of a port-mantua, or a cloke-bagge; a serving man. 1654Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 65 The consequent of Truth hath ever been in danger of his teeth.
†5. Phr. by consequent: = by consequence. Obs. [F. par conséquent (14th c. in Littré).]
1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. vii. 18 Thyse sayd condycions bylongen to a good conestable and by consequent to the marchallis. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. x. §2 The subject being so variable, hath made the art by consequent more conjectural. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 401 A Friend..more to be admired; and by the consequent more precious. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 137 Philosophie and Curiosie corrupted this noble schole of Alexandria, and by consequent the Church. 1685A. Lovell tr. Simon's Crit. Hist. Relig. 33.
†b. in the consequent: in the result. Obs. (Cf. consequence 4 d.)
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. Ep. Ded. 2 In the consequent there would be no vertue, and no felicity.
†6. = consequence 5, 6. Obs.
1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 48 What though that honest Hodge haue cut his finger heere?..'tis no consequent to me. 1640Canterb. Self-Convict. 41 A matter of very dangerous consequent.
▪ II. consequent, a.|ˈkɒnsɪkwənt|
[a. F. conséquent (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. consequent-em, pr. pple. of consequī to follow closely, attend upon: see consecute.]
1. a. Following as an effect or result; resulting.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 35 But loke therof what foloweth consequent. 1616Bullokar, Consequent, following or necessarily comming after another thing. 1712Spect. No. 551 ⁋1 That Praise should be returned them, as one proper consequent Reward of their Performances. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames Introd., The very rapid increase of Trade, and the consequent influx of Wealth. 1840Hood Up Rhine 2 Causing sudden derangements of the circulation..and consequent physical depressions.
b. Const. on, upon, to.
1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xiii, Whatsoever..is consequent to a time of war. 1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. i. iv. 86 Consequent to a worthy communion. a1716South (J.), This satisfaction or dissatisfaction, consequent upon a man's acting suitably or unsuitably to conscience. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. i. iii, How events..to the common observer unconnected, are inevitably consequent the one to the other. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps ii. §9. 36 The necessities consequent on the employment of those materials.
2. Following as an inference or logical conclusion.
1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. i. §10 In this sence it [the conclusion] is neither consequent nor true. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. i. 14 A new proposition though consequent from an Article of Faith, becomes not therefore a part of the Faith. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 10.
†3. Following in time or order, succeeding, subsequent. Obs.
1475[see consequently 1]. 1581W. Charke in Confer. iv. (1584) D d iiij b, In workes consequent or following he might glorie. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. iii. iii. (1622) 69 Not onely among such as then liued, but in times consequent. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Knt. Malta v. ii, Thy memory..Shall monumentally be registered To ages consequent. 1637R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Introd., As the consequent words make evident. 1742H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann I. xxv. 162, I hope you have received mine regularly since, that you may know all the consequent steps.
4. Observing or characterized by logical sequence of thought or reasoning; logically consistent.
1849Lewes Robesp. 124 As property had been defined by Rousseau to be in itself a spoliation..Robespierre was only consequent in his demand. 1879― Study Psychol. 122 To be consequent, they should have shewn that, etc. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 19 The idealism of Emerson is more subjective, his pantheism more complete and consequent.
†5. Of consequence, important (to). Obs. rare.
1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 125 That the distribution is not equal, is not consequent to any member in this House, unless he speak for a county or borough of that nation.
6. consequent points (in Magnetism) = consecutive poles: see quots.
1860Tyndall Glac. i. xx. 144 It is quite easy to develope in the same piece of steel several pairs of poles; and if the magnetization be irregular, this is sometimes done when we wish to avoid it. These irregular poles are called consequent points. 1882tr. Deschanel's Nat. Phil. §689 In this case the magnet will have not only a pole at each end, but also a pole at each point where the reversal occurs. These intermediate poles are called consequent points.
7. quasi-adv.
1692Locke Educ. §136 And consequent to this, instil into him a Love and Reverence of this Supreme Being. 1696Stanhope Chr. Pattern (1711) 304 And consequent to that, fill my soul with pure and holy affections.
8. Geol. (See quots. 1904 and 1960.)
1875J. W. Powell Explor. Colorado River xi. 163 Valleys are found having directions dependent on corrugation. I propose to call these consequent valleys. 1895Geogr. Jrnl. V. 127 The terms, consequent, subsequent, and obsequent, have been applied to rivers by Professor W. M. Davis. 1904Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. (1905) I. 74 Streams and valleys, the courses of which are determined by the original slope of the land, are said to be consequent. 1930Peach & Horne Geol. Scotl. 10 Consequent valleys. 1936Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXVII. 21 It has been attributed to parallel consequent drainage. 1960L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) v. 41 Rain falling will collect into streams, roughly parallel, finding the shortest route seawards. The streams are consequent on the slope and hence are known as consequent streams. |