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Definition of Consequents
1. consequent [n] - See also: consequent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consequents
Literary usage of Consequents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"The evils and sad consequents of drunkenness (the consideration of which are as
so many arguments to avoid the sin) are to this sense reckoned by the ..."
2. An Elementary Treatise on Algebra: To which are Added Exponential Equations by Benjamin Peirce (1837)
"63, A + C; A — C= B + D :B — D mA-{-nC:mA — nC=mB -\-nD :mB — nD; that is, the
sum of the antecedents of a proportion is to the sum of the consequents, ..."
3. The Art of Oratorical Composition: Based Upon the Precepts and Models of the by Charles Coppens (1885)
"ANTECEDENTS AND consequents. 93. We mean by Antecedents such things as ordinarily
and naturally precede an event, and by Consequences, or consequents, ..."
4. A System of Intellectual Philosophy by Asa Mahan (1845)
"The logical consequents of no one Intuition can be in Opposition to any primary
Intuition, nor to the logical consequents of the same. ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Determinants: With Their Application to by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll (1867)
"H<K; now, if these 2 pairs contain a derangement of consequents, r »; .•. when the
pairs are re-arranged iu order of consequents, these 2 will stand in the ..."
6. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind by James Mill (1869)
"THE ACTS OF OUR FELLOW-CREATURES, WHICH ARE CAUSES OF OUR PAINS AND PLEASURES,
CONTEMPLATED AS consequents OF OUR OWN ACTS. WE are now in a condition to ..."
7. A Manual of Psychology by George Frederick Stout (1899)
"Physiological Antecedents and consequents of Mental Process.—It is an old saying
that the body is the organ of the mind,—the instrument through which it ..."
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