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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Consequent

Con′se·quent (·kwĕnt), a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. conséquent. See Second, and cf. Consecution.] 1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.

The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke.

2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.

Consequent points, Consequent poles (Magnetism), a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities.

Con′se·quent, n. 1. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.

They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. Sir J. Davies.

2. (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.

3. (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.