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a. [Lat. consequens, p. pr. of consequi; Fr. & Pr. conséquent. See CONSECUTION.] 1. Following as a result or inference;—with to or on. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke. 2. (Log.) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.
n. 1. That which follows, or results from, a cause.
They were ill governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment. Davies.
Sense 2. (Log.) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
Sense 3. (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a : b, the first, a, being called the antecedent.