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Agreeing in mind; accordant. The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson.

With consent; in a compliant manner. Jer. Taylor.

depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result. Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence. Milton.

Drawing inference. [R.] Milton.

Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke.

Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequenment. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. Locke. These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale.…

With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison.

The quality of being consequential.

By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

Junction; adaptation [R.] Consertion of design, how exquisite. Young.

Capable of being preserved from decay or injury.

Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use. [An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the conservancy of the Thames and Isis. Mozley & W.

Having the power or quality of conservation.

he keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation. A step necessary for the conservation of Protestantism. Hallam. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Burke. Conservation of areas (Astron.), the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun…

Tending to conserve; preservative.

and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government as the Conservative party in england; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical. We have always been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be call…

The quality of being conservative.

A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].

e who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. Derham.