Such fatal consequence unites us three.
Milton.
Link follows link by necessary consequence.
Coleridge.
4. Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.
It is a matter of small consequence.
Shak.
A sense of your own worth and consequence.
Cowper.
In consequence, hence; for this cause. -- In consequence of, by reason of; as the effect of.
Syn. -- Effect; result; end. See Effect.
Con"se*quen`cing (?), n. Drawing inference. [R.] Milton.
Con"se*quent (?), a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. consÚquent. 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.
Con`se*quen"tial (?), a. 1. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent.
All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority.
Locke.
These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose.
Sir M. Hale.
2. Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4.
His stately and consequential pace.
Sir W. Scott.
Consequential damage (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act.
Con`se*quen"tial*ly, adv. 1. With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically.
The faculty of writing consequentially.
Addison.
2. By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially. South.
3. In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously.