consecution
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English consecucioun (“attainment”), from Latin cōnsecūtiō (“effect, proper sequence, attainment”), from past participle of cōnsequor (“to follow, result, reach”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]consecution (countable and uncountable, plural consecutions)
- (archaic) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- 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
- (obsolete) A succession or series of any kind.
- 1664, Isaac Newton, edited by David Brewster, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton[1], volume 1, published 1855, page 159:
- 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
- (archaic) Sequence.
- (logic) The relation of consequent to antecedent.
- (music) A succession of similar intervals in harmony.
Usage notes
[edit]- This word is used in logic, linguistics and computing to refer to the relation of a consequent to an antecedent.
- Its other senses are obsolete. Use of the word today in those senses is generally an error made by non-native speakers: words like "consequence" and "sequence" are more likely to be understood.
Synonyms
[edit]- (sequence): See Thesaurus:sequence
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]sequel — see sequel
succession — see succession
sequence — see sequence
(logic) relation of consequent to antecedent
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References
[edit]- “consecution”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “consecution”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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