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Definition of Consequent
1. Adjective. Following or accompanying as a consequence. "The resultant savings were considerable"
Similar to: Subsequent
Derivative terms: Attend, Attendant, Concomitance, Consequence, Result, Result, Resultant, Resultant, Resultant
Definition of Consequent
1. a. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
2. n. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
Definition of Consequent
1. Adjective. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to consequences. ¹
3. Noun. (logic) The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q." ¹
4. Noun. An event which follows another. ¹
5. Noun. That which follows an antecedent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consequent
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consequent
Literary usage of Consequent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"Where there is no reason there can be no consequent ; and, vice I'frsa, where
there is no consequent (either implicitly or explicitly) there can be no ..."
2. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"*5) The Consequent Phrase contains eight measures (twice the length o( its
Antecedent), ... The same, with repetition of the Consequent Phrase (par. 42). ..."
3. Lectures on the diseases of the nervous system by Jean Martin Charcot (1879)
"Nutritive disorders consequent on lesions of the cérébro-spinal axis and of the
... Disorders of nutrition consequent on non-traumatic lesions of the nerves ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"It is possible that a feeling of weakness consequent on this breach with the House
... No doubt James's quarrel with the House of Commons and his consequent ..."
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