Consecution

//ˌkɒnsɪˈkjuːʃən// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "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"

  2. 2
    A succession or series of any kind. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "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"

  3. 3
    Sequence. archaic, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    The relation of consequent to antecedent. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A succession of similar intervals in harmony. countable, uncountable

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"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"

Etymology

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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