Definition of consequent

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Consequent (n.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent..

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Apodosis :: Apodosis (n.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis..
Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent..
Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequent..
Seminal :: Seminal (a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue..
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..
Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.
Quadrilateral :: Quadrilateral (n.) A plane figure having four sides, and consequently four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines..
Consectary :: Consectary (a.) Following by consequence; consequent; deducible.
Fractural :: Fractural (a.) Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture..
Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils..
Thoroughpin :: Thoroughpin (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through..
Eventtual :: Eventtual (a.) Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential.
Consequently :: Consequently (adv.) By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.
Adjunct :: Adjunct (a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Quadrilateral :: Quadrilateral (a.) Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular..
Deductible :: Deductible (a.) Deducible; consequential.
Consequentially :: Consequentially (adv.) By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially..
Tetralogy :: Tetralogy (n.) A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival..
Consequent :: Consequent (n.) That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect..
Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
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