Meanings
plural consecutions
- archaiccountableuncountableA following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
Some consecutions are so intimately and evidently connexed to or found in the premises, that the conclusion is attained, and without any thing of ratiocinative progress
a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC - countableobsoleteuncountableA succession or series of any kind.
there shall be generated such a consecution of colours, whose order, from the thin end towards the thick, shall be yellow, red, purple, blue, green, and these so often repeated
1664, Isaac Newton, edited by David Brewster, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, volume 1, published 1855, page 159 - archaiccountableuncountableSequence.
- countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe relation of consequent to antecedent.
- countableuncountableentertainmentA succession of similar intervals in harmony.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latincōnsecūtiō“effect, proper sequence, attainment”
- Middle Englishconsecucioun“attainment”
- Englishconsecution
From Middle English consecucioun (“attainment”), from Latin cōnsecūtiō (“effect, proper sequence, attainment”), from past participle of cōnsequor (“to follow, result, reach”).
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French consécution
- consécution(logic) relation of consequent to antecedent
Spanish consecución
- consecución(logic) relation of consequent to antecedent
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