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con·se·quent

 (kŏn′sĭ-kwĕnt′, -kwənt)
adj.
1.
a. Following as a natural effect, result, or conclusion: tried to prevent an oil spill and the consequent damage to wildlife.
b. Following as a logical conclusion.
2. Logically correct or consistent.
3. Geology Having a position or direction determined by the original form or slope of the earth's surface: a consequent river; a consequent valley.
n.
1. Logic The conclusion, as of a syllogism or a conditional sentence.
2. The second term of a ratio.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cōnsequēns, cōnsequent-, present participle of cōnsequī, to follow closely : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + sequī, to follow; see sekw- in Indo-European roots.]
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consequent

(ˈkɒnsɪkwənt)
adj
1. following as an effect or result
2. following as a logical conclusion or by rational argument
3. (Physical Geography) (of a river) flowing in the direction of the original slope of the land or dip of the strata
n
4. something that follows something else, esp as a result
5. (Logic) logic the resultant clause in a conditional sentence
6. (Logic) affirming the consequent logic the fallacy of inferring the antecedent of a conditional sentence, given the truth of the conditional and its consequent, as if John is six feet tall, he's more than five feet: he's more than five feet so he's six feet
7. (Mathematics) an obsolete term for denominator1
[C15: from Latin consequēns following closely, from consequī to pursue]
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con•se•quent

(ˈkɒn sɪˌkwɛnt, -kwənt)

adj.
1. following as an effect or result; resulting (often fol. by on or to).
2. following as a logical conclusion.
3. following or progressing logically.
n.
4. anything that follows upon something else, with or without a causal relationship.
5. the second member of a conditional proposition, as he was a great general in If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general. Compare antecedent (def. 6).
6. Math.
a. the second term of a ratio.
b. the second of two vectors in a dyad.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin consequent-, s. of consequēns, present participle of consequī to succeed. See consecution]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.consequent - following or accompanying as a consequence; "an excessive growth of bureaucracy, with attendant problems"; "snags incidental to the changeover in management"; "attendant circumstances"; "the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"
subsequent - following in time or order; "subsequent developments"
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consequent

adjective following, resulting, subsequent, successive, ensuing, resultant, sequential The warming of the Earth and the consequent climatic changes affect us all.
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consequent

adjective
Consistent with reason and intellect:
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Translations

consequent

[ˈkɒnsɪkwənt] ADJconsiguiente
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consequent

[ˈkɒnsɪkwənt] adj
(= consequential) → résultant(e)
(formal) to be consequent upon sth, to be consequent on sth → résulter de qch
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consequent

adj attrdaraus folgend, sich daraus ergebend; (temporal) → darauf folgend; to be consequent upon something (form, liter)sich aus etw ergeben
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consequent

[ˈkɒnsɪkwənt] adjconseguente
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Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.
Even the vexation consequent upon his recent adventure had vanished from his mind; and he could join in the hearty laughter, which any allusion to it excited in Mr.
And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator.
The majority of the younger men envied him for just what was the most irksome factor in his love--the exalted position of Karenin, and the consequent publicity of their connection in society.
"It's all pretty much as I used to imagine it long ago, when I wept over your inevitable marriage and our consequent parting," she laughed.
-- men, whose very signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of the domesticated animals; men, who do not possess the instinct of those animals, nor yet appear to boast of human reason, or at least of arts consequent on that reason.
And I had heard of the death of her husband, from an accident consequent on his ill-treatment of a horse.
And just then there came a knock and a scurrying; the police, so lamentably absent from the Calton Hill, appeared upon the scene; and the party, taken FLAGRANTE DELICTO, with their glasses at their elbow, were seized, marched up to the police office, and all duly summoned to appear as witnesses in the consequent case against that arch-shebeener, Colette.
It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations.
On the other hand, Pierre demanded that steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation.
There was not even an instant's hesitation upon the part of the latter--it was as though he had not even paused in his swift progress through the trees, so lightning-like his survey and comprehension of the scene below him--so instantaneous his consequent action.
From the topmost peak of reason James teaches to cease reasoning and to have faith that all is well and will be well--the old, oh, ancient old, acrobatic flip of the metaphysicians whereby they reasoned reason quite away in order to escape the pessimism consequent upon the grim and honest exercise of reason.