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Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4. His stately and consequential pace. Sir W. Scott. Consequential damage (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c)…

Tending to conserve; preservative.

Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.

Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow.

Serving or tending to bind or constrict.

Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred. Constructive crimes (Law), acts having effects analogous to those of some statutory or common law crimes; as, constructive treason. Constructive crimes are no longer recognized by the courts. -- Constructive notice, no…

That consults. Consulting physician (Med.), a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease.

In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.

Tending or liable to contaminate.

The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing. In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left. Reid. To have in contemplation, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.

body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous. Lamb.

In a contending manner.

of energy, etc.; extended; protacted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story. "Continued woe." Jenyns. "Continued succession." Locke. Continued bass (Mus.), a bass continued through an entire piece of music, while the other parts o…

tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance. Hixley. Contractile vacuole (Zoöl.), a pulsating cavity in the interior…

Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

Pertaining to the sending of two messages in opposite directions at the same time.

ositions. Contrary motion (Mus.), the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending.