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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONSEQUENT, a. [L.]
1. Following, as the natural effect; with to or on.
The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal.
His poverty was consequent on his vices.
2. Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as a proposition consequent to other propositions.
CONSEQUENT, n.
1. Effect; that which follows a cause.
They were ill governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.
2. That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion or inference.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: attendant, consequent, accompanying, concomitant, incidental, ensuant, resultant, sequent]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin consequent-, consequens, present participle of consequi to follow along, from com- + sequi to follow — more at sue Date: 14th century 1. a. deduction 2b b. the conclusion of a conditional sentence 2. the second term of a ratio II. adjective Date: 15th century 1. following as a result or effect <her new job and consequent relocation> 2. observing logical sequence ; rational

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 (often foll. by on, upon) following as a result or consequence. 2 logically consistent. --n. 1 a thing that follows another. 2 Logic the second part of a conditional proposition, dependent on the antecedent. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L consequi (as consecution)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consequent Con"se*quent, a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. cons['e]quent. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consequent 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Consequent means happening as a direct result of an event or situation. (FORMAL) The warming of the Earth and the consequent climatic changes affect us all... ADJ: usu ADJ n, also n ADJ upon/on n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Following, consequential, resulting. 2. Deducible, inferable or inferrible. II. n. 1. Following or succeeding event, second or after term. 2. Deduction, conclusion, inference.

Moby Thesaurus

appendant, consequential, derivational, derivative, ensuing, final, following, intelligent, logical, next, posterior, postpositional, postpositive, proximate, reasonable, resultant, resulting, sensible, sequacious, sequent, sequential, sound, subsequent, succeeding, successive, suffixed